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SUMMARY:Nazi Elite Schools and International Exchange
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DESCRIPTION:A lecture from the seminar series\nYOUNG IN DANGEROUS TIMES: 
 CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN GLOBAL HISTORY\n\nThe Napolas (Nationalpolitische 
 Erziehungsanstalten) were the most prominent type of Nazi elite school. 
 Founded as a birthday present for Hitler in 1933 by Reich Education Mini
 ster Bernhard Rust\, they aimed to educate future leaders of the Third R
 eich in all walks of life (including politics\, economics\, and the mili
 tary). Before the outbreak of World War II\, international exchanges wit
 h British public schools\, U.S. academies and schools in Scandinavia for
 med an important part of school life – Napola pupils were seen as ‘cultu
 ral ambassadors’ for the Third Reich\, who could potentially proselytise
  and convince youth in other ‘Nordic’ countries of the rightness of Nati
 onal Socialism.\n\nThis talk will explore some of the general background
  to these exchange programmes\, before focusing on a series of exchanges
  between Napola Ilfeld and Kingswood School in Bath. The British public 
 schools had long been perceived as an important model for the Napolas\, 
 but it was intended that the National Socialist model should prove itsel
 f incontrovertibly superior to that of the ‘Eton schools’. Using a mixtu
 re of contemporary documentary evidence and eyewitness testimony from fo
 rmer pupils on both sides of the Anglo-German divide\, we can analyse th
 e development – and deterioration – of relations on both sides\, as the 
 political situation steadily worsened.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A101\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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