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Kansasliberal asked this question about All the Light We Cannot See:
Do we know why Frederick was so pushed by his family to attend the Nazis school where he obviously did not belong?
Katie This thread is frustrating because many people are conflating Hitler Youth (the Nazi Party's youth organization) with the National Political Institute…moreThis thread is frustrating because many people are conflating Hitler Youth (the Nazi Party's youth organization) with the National Political Institutes of Education. The latter were boarding schools for the elite and difficult to gain admittance to.(less)
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Almudena The Nazi regime was totalitarian and at that time it had absorbed and encompassed all the German institutions, especially the elite ones.
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Inez The school actually existed from way before 1933... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pforta ...more
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