During the National Socialist era, these groups sought to recruit young individuals from working class backgrounds with the aim of destroying Nazi control.
The Meuten became active in Leipzig around 1937, and such as members of Blasen[incomprehensible] they were blue collar workers, apprentices and shop clerks.
When they were not congregating in cinemas, public swimming pools, or formerly Communist neighborhood pubs, they liked to hike and discuss politics.
[2] The group had Communist roots, listened to Radio Moscow, stretched the customary bündisch bias for everything Russian, and romanticized conditions in the Soviet Union.
A group of members were convicted in October 1938 and sentenced to between one and five years of incarceration, due to the Meuten being connected to Communism and at the time Germany held legislation that forbade the resurrection of any of the Weimar political parties.