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US prep schools held student exchanges with elite Nazi academies

  • Written by Helen Roche, Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History, Durham University
US prep schools held student exchanges with elite Nazi academiesGerman students reading newspapers in the Nazi academy in Rügen in 1943.Dietrich Schulz, Author provided

In the summer of 1935, the Nazi government hijacked a student exchange program between leading American and German schools.

The International Schoolboy Fellowship, as it was known, was first set up by Walter Huston Lillard, the headmaster...

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