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The Young German Order (in
The Young German Order (in German
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, often abbreviated as ) was a large para-military organisation in Weimar Germany
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. Its name and symbol (see picture) were inspired by the Teutonic Knights
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( in German).
The pseudo-chivalric group was involved in nationalistic German politics. Its youth organisation was called (Young German Youth
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). Jungdo's political arm, the (People's National Reich Association
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) merged with the German Democratic Party
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and parts of the Christian Social People's Service
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in 1930 to become the German State Party
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.
The group was founded by Artur Mahraun in May 1920 in Kassel. The organisation tried to revive ideals of the pre-war Wandervogel
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youth movement. Very soon it reached 70,000 members, although it was temporarily banned in early 1921, and being the largest of the many para-military groups in the 1920s, it later expanded to almost 300,000 members. In 1933 it was banned by the Nazi
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rulers.
Paramilitary organisations of the Weimar Republic
Conservative Revolutionary movement
German nationalist organizations
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