English Calamity: A Tragic Hiking Disaster in 1936 The English calamity, or Engländerunglück as it is known in German, was a devastating hiking disaster that occurred on April 17, 1936, in the Schauinsland region near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This tragic incident involved a group of twenty-seven English schoolboys who found themselves stranded in…