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5 unusual facts about Jaroslav Foglar


Jaroslav Foglar

At its high tide, there were many thousand of such independent clubs, which were basically kind of Wandervogel concurrence towards the organized Scout movement.

Foglar's idea of independent boy clubs is basically derived from German Wandervogel movement.

During the 1920s, Foglar was strongly influenced by German independent Wandervogel movement as well as Scout movement led by Antonín Benjamin Svojsík under Czech name Junák.

Wandervogel movement itself had some elements of male eroticism.

Firstly, as an author, Foglar was strongly influenced by German Wandervogel romantism more than the ideas of British scout movement (which emerged in Bohemian Lands during the WWI).



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