The Jugendbund der NSDAP was a youth organisation attached to the
Nazi Party
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and a predecessor to the
Hitler Youth
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. It was effectively the youth section of the
Sturmabteilung
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(SA, or Storm Troopers) and it existed between 1922
[Its formation was announced in the 8 March 1922 edition of the Völkischer Beobachter] and 1923 when the Nazi Party was banned following the failed
Munich Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed schoolshistory.org.uk, accessed 2008-05-31.Known in German as the or was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and othe ...
. It contained three sections:
*Jungmannschaften: boys aged 14 to 16 years
*Jungsturm Adolf Hitler: 16 to 18 years old
*The organisation also had a girls wing.
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Organizations based in the Weimar Republic
Hitler Youth
Historical youth organisations based in Germany
Youth organizations established in 1922
Organizations disestablished in 1923
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