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Documents - Youth and Education in West Germany
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1.   The German Youth Ring: Programmatic Leaflet (November 19, 1946)
Founded in November 1946, the German Youth Ring [Deutsche Jugendring] aimed to counter the political disorientation of German youth in the postwar period. With its educational work and leisure-time....
2.   Excerpt from the Constitution of the State of Baden (May 18, 1947)
Since culture and education were traditionally within the purview of the states and were not centrally regulated, the individual states had leeway in shaping the legislation governing their school....
3.   The Constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (October 21, 1947)
The constitution of the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen of October 21, 1947, was noticeably more reform-oriented than the southern German constitutions when it came to education and the school system.....
4.   Heinz Kluth, "The 'Hooligans' [Halbstarke] – Legend or Reality?" (1956)
In 1950s West Germany, the traditional values of the older generation clashed with the new and different ideas of young people, which found expression in new forms of dress, music, and leisure-time....
5.   Adolf Busemann, "Barbarization and Brutalization" (1956)
Adolf Busemann decries the alarming rise in youth crime in West Germany in the 1950s. As he explains, youths were committing both more and more serious criminal acts. For Busemann, the rise in recorded....
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