ABSTRACT
GE R M A N youth never produced a Bismarck prepared to bully and cajole all its little groups to unite into one great movement. The Wandervogel, which had split into four different streams within the previous decade, subdivided during the twenties and early thirties into at least a dozen major Bunde and countless minor ones, each with its own leader, its magazine or newsletter, its yearly camps and its distinctive banner and attire. Even experts sometimes found it difficult to distinguish between, say, the Deutschwandervogel and the Wandervogel deutscher Bund, or between the Ringgemeinschaft and the Reichsschaft of the Scouts. Yet this progressive fragmentation may have helped at times to extend its influence.
