The Third Reich based its elite schools, set up to train Nazi Germany’s future leaders, on British private schools like Eton and Harrow, a new book reveals. Historian Helen Roche has written the first comprehensive history of Nazi elite schools, known as Napolas. Drawing on widespread archival research and testimony from more than 100 former pupils, she discovered how keen the Nazis were to learn from the “character-forming” example of the British private school system. Between 1934 and 1939, there was a significant degree of exchange between British and German schools, with boys from the UK’s most prestigious private schools...
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