With boot stomping and cross-belt: When street fighting was politics

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With boot stomping and cross-belt: When street fighting was politics

CultureWith boot stomping and cross-belts: When street fighting was politics Egon ClausenWith battle cries and waving flags, the young people marched in time through our cities. They walked with boots and cross-belts, and the use of violence was part of their work, so they threw cobblestones and attacked political opponents with sticks and their bare fists. It was in 1930s Denmark, and some of the marchers were young Social Democrats, while othe…