ABSTRACT
Eberhard Kobel, better known as 'Tusk' made, for better or worse, a strong impact on his contemporaries which even outlasted the Third Reich. The attempts to revive the youth movement after the Second World War were based more often than not on the traditions established by this man and a handful of his followers in the early nineteen-thirties. Tusk tried to maintain contact and influence with his surviving followers, and with some new adherents, in circular letters from London during the first years after the war, but their effect was very limited. In 1928, when Tusk was a regional leader of the Freischar, his energy and impetuosity came to the knowledge of 'General' Buske, the then leader of the Bund. A small group of young emigres in London, Communist-led, under a neutral, popular-front disguise, provided Tusk with at least a symbolic framework for his activity.
