Southern Legion

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The Jungebund Südlegion , active in Berlin , was a small, culturally influential association of the Bündische Jugend .

The Southern Legion was created in 1932 when the "Tahoe Ring" left the German Scout Association . In 1934, the Southern Legion officially dissolved to avoid incorporation into the Hitler Youth . Nevertheless, further large-scale trips were carried out under the direction of their federal leader Rudi Pallas .

Rudi Pallas (1907–1952) was arrested in 1937 for “group activities” and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . It was not until 1940 that he was released on parole. At Stalingrad he defected to the Red Army and in 1943 became a member of the Communist Association of German Officers . After the war he worked as a communist on the East Berlin German broadcaster .

The submarine commander Oskar Kusch , who was executed in 1944, also came from the Southern Legion.

The group style of the Tahoe Ring and the South Legion differed greatly from that of other confederate groups of the 1930s, which often only knew the pedagogy of "hardship". The motto of the Tahoe Ring was:

birg in cold silver lily the rose red glow

Against this background, the Southern Legion dealt intensively with literature , art and philosophy . Close contacts existed, for example, with the writers Jean Giono , Ernst Wiechert , Hans Carossa and André Gide . One of the ideals of the Southern Legion was Hellenism . Like dj.1.11 she opened up to the songs of other peoples that she had got to know on trips to southern Europe. Completely committed to the covenant thinking with his ideas of a life and men's union, many of the songs created in the South Legion are based on texts that come from the circle around the writer Stefan George (including the song also known as the "Song of the White Rose ") Close your eyes and ears for a while by Friedrich Gundolf ).

Publications

literature

  • Arno Klönne : southern legion. a report on rudi pallas and the southern legion boys' union. Puls 13. Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim 1986. ISSN  0342-3328

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