The Third Reich's Elite Schools A History of the Napolas

by Roche, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780198904397
• ISBN10: 0198904398
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-03-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Helen Roche, Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History, Durham University

Helen Roche is Assistant Professor in Modern European Cultural History at Durham University, having previously held research fellowships at Cambridge and UCL. She has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history, including the history of education, National Socialism, and classical reception studies. Key publications include Sparta's German Children (2013), Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (ed., 2018), and Surviving "Stunde Null": Narrating the Fate of Nazi Elite-school Pupils during the Collapse of the Third Reich, which was awarded German History journal's 'Best Article Prize' in 2015. Recently, she co-founded 'Claiming the Classical', a global research network which maps twenty-first-century political appropriations of the ancient world. She is currently researching the history of everyday life under fascism in interwar Europe.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Napolas in Historical Context
PART I: GENESIS
1. Foundation and Administration: The Napolas' Position within the Polycratic Nazi State
2. 'Selection', Teaching, and Everyday Life
3. 'Missions' and Extracurricular Activities
PART II: VARIETY WITHIN UNITY
4. The Prussian Paradigm? Resurrecting Cadet-School Traditions at the Former Staatliche Bildungsanstalten
5. Centralism versus Particularism: Harnessing Regional Ambitions and Negotiating Federal Tensions at the NPEA in Saxony, Anhalt, and Württemberg
6. The Annihilation of Tradition? The 'Napolisation' of Humanistic and Religious Foundations
7. Ostmark: The Annexation of the Viennese Bundeserziehungsanstalten and Heißmeyer's 'Dissolution of the Monasteries'
8. The Reichsschulen and the Napolas' Germanizing Mission in Eastern and Western Europe
9. For Girls Only: The NPEA für Mädchen
PART III: NEMESIS
10. The Demands of Total War
11. The Endkrieg and the Last of the Napolas
12. Epilogue: Post-war
Conclusion