Month: September 2013
New publication: "Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta"Helen's article, '"Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta": The tension between Classical tradition and the demands of a Nazi elite-school education at Schulpforta and Ilfeld, 1934–1945' has just been published in the latest issue of the European Review of History / revue européenne d'histoire. The paper explores the tensions which arose when Schulpforta, Germany’s most renowned humanistic boarding-school, was forcibly turned into a Nazi elite-school (a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt, or Napola).Read more...