Dr Helen Roche's Outputs (2)

Nazi Elite Boarding Schools and the Attempted Creation of a New Class System (2022)
Book Chapter
Roche, H. (2022). Nazi Elite Boarding Schools and the Attempted Creation of a New Class System. In D. Gerster, & F. Jensz (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (79-100). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99041-1_4

This article uses the elite education provided by the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten (Napolas), the Third Reich’s most prominent elite schools, as a case study of the Nazi regime’s drive to eradicate class-based social differences. Nazi propa... Read More about Nazi Elite Boarding Schools and the Attempted Creation of a New Class System.

The Biopolitics of Education in the Third Reich’s ‘Special Schools’ and ‘Elite Schools’ (2022)
Journal Article
Roche, H., & Pine, L. (2023). The Biopolitics of Education in the Third Reich’s ‘Special Schools’ and ‘Elite Schools’. Historical Journal, 66(2), 413-434. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x22000358

While discussion of eugenics and biopolitics during the Third Reich has largely focused upon the regime's most destructive and genocidal policies, this article concentrates on Nazi ‘special schools’ and ‘elite schools’ as a crucial sphere of quasi-eu... Read More about The Biopolitics of Education in the Third Reich’s ‘Special Schools’ and ‘Elite Schools’.