7th August 1941
Hinterzarten

Hinterzarten

Hinterzarten is a resort village in the Black Forest, located in the southwest of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Although Hinterzarten is mostly famous for its ski jumping, it has many other tourist attractions.

The Birklehof in Hinterzarten, an elite boarding school, was converted into a state reformatory during the Nazi era. Despite this, the students were largely spared from the Gleichschaltung.

[The Nazi term Gleichschaltung or 'coordination' was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society 'from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education'. Although the Weimar Constitution remained nominally in effect until Germany's surrender following World War II, near total Nazification had been secured by the 1935 resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally, when the symbols of the Nazi Party and the state were fused and German Jews were deprived of their citizenship. The tenets of Gleichschaltung also applied to territories occupied by the Nazis.]

Source: Wikipedia & Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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