About twelve members of Neu Beginnen, a group formed in 1929 mostly by left-wing members, mostly ‘intellectuals’ of the SPD became exiles in Britain. Loewenheim, their main theoretician, unlike the others, remained in the UK.
Loewenheim first joined the Wandervogel (‘Wandering Bird’), the principal German youth group with around two million members, whose activities centred on hiking and nature and a Jewish youth group, the Judische Jugendbund.… read on...