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 | | Dubbed by one historian as the greatest "manifesto of the radical eco-pacifist movement in Germany," this essay was originally written for the Wandervogel, the independent German Youth Movement, and presented at their large outdoor national gathering on Mesissner Mountain in 1913. |
 | | Yet, the 60,000 largely middle-class members of the Wandervogel (German for "wandering birds") sought refuge from such narrow ideological constraintsat least until World War I. They sought this refuge in each others company, and in their frequent excursions to Germanys forests, mountains, and rural countryside. |
 | | Like many Germans, the Wandervogel and the Freideutsche, a companion movement of older university youth, were disappointed with the outcome of the long sought-after achievement of national reunification under Bismarck in 1871. |
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