Dr Helen Roche's Outputs (6)

Sparta's German Children: The Ideal of Ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920, and in National-socialist Elite Schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945 (2013)
Book
Roche, H. (2013). Sparta's German Children: The Ideal of Ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920, and in National-socialist Elite Schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945. Classical Press of Wales

Spartan Supremacy: A "Possession for Ever"? Early fourth-century expectations of enduring ascendancy (2013)
Book Chapter
Roche, H. (2013). Spartan Supremacy: A "Possession for Ever"? Early fourth-century expectations of enduring ascendancy. In A. Powell (Ed.), Hindsight in Greek and Roman History (91-112). Swansea: Classical Press of Wales

"In Sparta fühlte ich mich wie in einer deutschen Stadt" (Goebbels): The leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan nationalist paradigm (2013)
Book Chapter
Roche, H. (2013). "In Sparta fühlte ich mich wie in einer deutschen Stadt" (Goebbels): The leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan nationalist paradigm. In F. Rash, G. Horan, & D. Wildmann (Eds.), English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse, 1871-1945 (91-115). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0410-7

"Anti-Enlightenment": National Socialist educators' troubled relationship with humanism and the philhellenist tradition (2013)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2013). "Anti-Enlightenment": National Socialist educators' troubled relationship with humanism and the philhellenist tradition. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 82(3), 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1179/0959368313z.00000000025

Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten) and British public schoolboys (2013)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2013). Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten) and British public schoolboys. Angermion, 6, 101-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2013-0006

‘Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta …’: the tension between Classical tradition and the demands of a Nazi elite-school education at Schulpforta and Ilfeld, 1934–45 (2013)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2013). ‘Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta …’: the tension between Classical tradition and the demands of a Nazi elite-school education at Schulpforta and Ilfeld, 1934–45. European Review of History, 20(4), 581-609. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2013.764844

This paper explores the tensions which arose when Schulpforta, Germany's leading humanistic boarding school, was forcibly turned into a Nazi elite school (a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt, or Napola). The time-honoured traditions of Christianit... Read More about ‘Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta …’: the tension between Classical tradition and the demands of a Nazi elite-school education at Schulpforta and Ilfeld, 1934–45.