ABSTRACT
A history of youth movement politics could be written in terms of the Bunde, but an account of youth movement life would have to be based on studies of their constituent groups. The Wandervogel phase finished with the war of 1914-18, though many of the Bunde managed to survive in one way or another. The Bunde, which emerged from the remnants of the Wandervogel and the scouts, quickly became the main force in the second phase of the youth movement: and if the vagrant scholar might be said to have been the Wandervogel's ideal, that of the Bunde was the soldier. The youth movement contributed much to the gradual transformation of German education and, to a lesser extent, to the change in German mores—for instance, to the prevalence of a more natural and unaffected social tone, both among the intelligentsia and in certain sections of the middle class.
