What Do You Get When You Cross a Boy Scout with a Hippie?

In the 1890s, a grass-roots movement of young men came into existence in Germany. A cross between Boy Scouts and hippies,*  they called themselves the Wandervögel, literally the “wandering birds.”** They rejected the strict class system, materialism, and urban life of Germany under the Kaiser and embraced a romanticized ideal of a simpler time when…

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