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SUMMARY:'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Chal
 lenges Explored' - Dr Helen Roche (Lucy Cavendish College\, University of 
 Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Bianca Gaudenzi
DESCRIPTION:This paper focuses upon some of the challenges raised by resea
 rching the history of the Napolas (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten 
 or National-political Education Institutes)\, the most prominent type of N
 azi elite school. Pupils who passed the schools’ rigorous selection proc
 ess were educated from the age of ten upwards with the aim of their subseq
 uently becoming the future elite of the Third Reich in all walks of life 
 – whether political\, military\, economic or intellectual. However\, dur
 ing the Second World War\, the age of those pupils who were mobilised for 
 the armed forces decreased ever more rapidly\, with many boys going into b
 attle as young adolescents.\n\nCorrespondence and oral history interviews 
 with a selection of former pupils potentially allow for a rich and wide-ra
 nging analysis of their experiences\, as children who were being explicitl
 y trained in the service of the Nazi regime. However\, working with such m
 aterial also raises a number of significant methodological challenges whic
 h apply more generally to the study of childhood during this period - for 
 instance\, how far is it possible to move beyond the standard ‘perpetrat
 or/victim’ dichotomy when considering the actions of children or adolesc
 ents?
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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