The Third Reich's elite schools : a history of the Napolas / Helen Roche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roche, Helen (Historian), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military education--Germany--History--20th century.

Military education.

National socialism and education.

Germany.

Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt Oranienstein.

Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The Third Reich's Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany's most prominent training academies for the future elite. This deeply researched study gives an in-depth account of everyday life at the schools, while also shedding fresh light on the political, social, and cultural history of the Nazi dictatorship.

Contents:

Cover

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

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

A Note on Terminology

NPEA vs. Napola

Ausleseschule vs. Eliteschule

Place-Namesin Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Terms of Art

Notes

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

Zwischen Auslese und Ausmerze: The NPEA Selection Process

Settling In and Everyday Life

Contact with the Outside World

Pupils' Personal Relationships with House-Staff and Teaching Staff

Teaching and Academic Lessons

Sport, Physical Education, and Premilitary Training at the NPEA

The Napolas' School-Leaving Examination and Graduation Ceremony

Conclusions

3: 'Missions' and Extracurricular Activities

The NPEA and National Socialist 'Political Religion'

A Cultural 'Total Education'? Art, Music, and Drama at the NPEA

Travels within Germany: Educational Excursions

'Borderland Missions' and Travels beyond the Borders of the Reich

The NPEA Exchange Programmes with American Preparatory oSchools and British Public Schools

Farm, Factory, and Mining 'Missions': Realizing the 'Socialist' Aspects of National Socialism?

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

Notes.

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

12: Epilogue: Post-war

11: The Endkrieg and the Last of the Napolas

Terror from the East: The Fates of NPEA Stuhm, Köslin, Rügen, and Plön

Fighting the French in South-WestGermany: Skirmishes around NPEA Reichenau and Rottweil

Austrian Experiences: Flight from NPEA Göttweig and NPEA Traiskirchen

Desperate Days: Pupils from NPEA Spandau, Potsdam, and Neuzelle Experience the Battle for Berlin

Conclusion

'Schools Like Any Others'? Denazification, Exculpatory Narratives, and the Creation of Napola Collective Memory

From Jungmann to 'Napolaner': The Foundation and Operation of the West German Old Boys' Networks

Napola-Vergangenheitsbewältigung? Napolaner and the Past in Reunified Germany

Glossary

List of Eyewitnesses

List of Archives Consulted

List of Periodicals Consulted

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-179302-7

0-19-103905-5

OCLC:

1281965039