Outreach in 2021-22

This year saw numerous media reports and broadcasts surrounding the publication of Helen’s second book, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, in November 2021 (you can find a partial list below).

Helen also contributed two articles on Napola exchanges with British public schools and U.S. academies to the public-facing blog The Conversation.

Subsequent presentations included a guest lecture to pupils at Brentwood School and an in-person book-launch at Durham Castle.

In addition, Helen contributed two articles entitled ‘Founding of the Napolas in Austria’ and ‘Bundeserziehungsanstalten / Staatserziehungsanstalten’ to the public-facing online Encyclopedia of Contemporary Austrian History, compiled by the Austrian House of History (Haus der Geschichte Österreich) in October 2021.

Helen also provided historical consultancy for author Debbie Cadbury on a trade book entitled The School that Escaped the Nazis (2022).

Finally, Helen’s work on ‘Sparta and the Nazis’ was featured on The Ancients, a History Hit podcast, while her research on everyday life under Nazism was featured in four episodes of the Real Dictators podcast series on Hitler.

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RADIO, YOUTUBE AND PODCASTS

• ‘The Link between England’s Boarding Schools and Nazi Germany’, Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 17 November 2021.
• Lunchtime guest appearance with Bill Buckley, The Sarah Walker Show, BBC Radio Berkshire, 24 November 2021.
• ‘Elite Nazi Schools’, The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk (Irish National Radio), 17 November 2021.
• ‘Napolas’, You’re at Home, Baby!, ORF Radio FM4 (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), 4 December 2021.
• ‘The Stasi Poetry Circle, Nazi Schools, and German Culture’, Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3, 16 March 2022.

• ‘The Third Reich’s Elite Schools – The Nazi Napolas’, WW2TV, 25 January 2022.
• ‘Virtual Book Talk: The Third Reich’s Elite Schools with Helen Roche’, The Wiener Holocaust Library, 4 February 2022.
• ‘Die Napolas und persönliche Erfahrungen in der Forschung mit Helen Roche’, House of Modern History, 10 February 2022.
• ‘Third Reich Education – Nazi Boarding Schools – Connection to UK/US’, An Evolving Man Podcast, 11 November 2022.

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ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA

• ‘Nazi exchange trips came to Eton and Harrow, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools reveals’, feature by Jack Blackburn in The Times, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools’, feature by Mark Brown in The Guardian, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Nazis took inspiration from ‘Fuhrer-like’ public school headmasters’, feature by Craig Simpson in The Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Revealed: How Britain’s top private schools including Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Westminster and Rugby ran exchange schemes with top German academies to train Hitler’s future Nazi leaders’, feature by Harry Howard in The Daily Mail, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Nazis used UK public schools like Eton and Harrow as ‘model’ for education system’, feature by Jeremy Armstrong in The Mirror, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Nazi Germany’s elite schools held exchanges with likes of Eton, Harrow and Winchester, historian reveals’, Sky News, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Top British schools sent pupils on exchanges to Nazi Germany, historian reveals’, Metro, 17 November 2021.
• ‘Young Nazis: how I uncovered the close ties between British private schools and Hitler’s Germany’, The Conversation, 18 November 2021.
• ‘US Prep Schools Held Student Exchanges with Elite Nazi Academies’, The Conversation, 14 December 2021.

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FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MEDIA

• ‘Totale Erziehung. Helen Roche über die Geschichte der Napolas’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 May 2022.

• ‘Napola: Britische Privatschulen waren das Vorbild’, Damals, 23 November 2021.

• ‘Bildung für Herrenmenschen’, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 26 November 2021.

• ‘Nazis usaram colégios britânicos como modelo para criar escolas de elite’, Jornal de Noticias (Portugal), 17 November 2021.

• ‘Las escuelas de élite nazis tomaron como modelo los centros británicos más exclusivos’, La Vanguardia (Spain), 18 November 2021.

• ‘Le scuole naziste d’élite seguivano il modello delle scuole private britanniche’, Il digitale (Italy), 18 November 2021.