Autonomía, conformidad y rebelión: movimientos y culturas juveniles en Alemania en el periodo de entreguerras

Abstract

This article explores continuities and discontinuities between youth movements and youth cultures of the Weimar period and those during the Nazi era. A diverse spectrum of youth organizations in Weimar Germany provided millions of young people with leisure opportunities along with the chance to pursue common interests and ideas in a peer group setting. After 1933, the Nazi regime destroyed the pluralism of Weimar youth culture while seeking to adopt some features of pre-1933 youth movements in its drive to enforce conformity on an entire younger generation. In turn, this drive provoked a range of defiant responses from young people who sought to subvert and evade the Hitler Youth and assert their autonomy by drawing on elements of pre-1933 youth culture.