Boy Scouts vs Hitlerjugend

[Mike Weaver]

>I imagine that many Boy Scouts died in those wars, some probably
>  participated in the planning of those wars, and some may have committed
>  atrocities therein. GR offers up the possibility that whether they fought
>  on one or the other side of the War, soldiers (and the societies that
>  supported them) wound up  fighting for the same cause:  perpetuating an
>  entity,  the War, and the corporations and individuals who profit from War.

Sir Frances Fletcher Vane, descendant of Dixon's Vane, career soldier, 
anti-war campaigner and co-founder of the Boy Scouts fell out with Baden 
Powell in 1910 or 1911.  Vane saw the Scouts as a way that working class 
lads could develop their abilities and break through the normal class 
divides within the military.  He felt that Baden-Powell was more concerned 
with creating a conduit into the Terratorial Army, an exercise in 
recruiting cannon fodder for the coming war.
         Later Vane was a leader of the Italian Scout movement which was 
eventually banned by the fascists.