Month: February 2013
New monograph publication: 'Sparta's German Children'A monograph based on Helen's doctoral research, entitled Sparta's German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945, has just been published by the Classical Press of Wales.
"From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta..."Read more...
On 13 February 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Neither Political nor National Socialist": Former Nazi elite-school pupils' conflicts with their contested pasts' at an international conference on Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory, which was held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.Read more...
Presented at an international conference on 'Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory', Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 13 February 2013.Read more...