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Friday, 19th March 2021, 1:43 pm
Six Minutes to Midnight tells the story of Augusta Victoria College, a large Victorian villa in Dorset Road, which once housed a Nazi finishing school where up to two dozen daughters of the Nazi regime were sent to improve their English.
Students included the daughter of Adolf Hitler’s Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
The Augusta Victoria School operated in Dorset Road and taught German girls throughout the 1930s and only closed at the outbreak of World War Two.
The school was run on Nazi ideals throughout Hitler’s governance as demonstrated by the school badge, a Swastika on one side and a Union Jack on the other.
Inside school Adolf Hitler hoped would build bridge between Britain and the Nazis
Augusta Victoria College, in Bexhill-on-Sea, was designed to take the daughters of high-ranking Nazi officials and mould them into presentable young wives for the British ruling class
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The bizarre story of East Sussex s Nazi academy is being revisited in a new film starring Dame Judi Dench (Image: URL:)
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Despite anti-German sentiment growing in Britain, the girls were welcomed in East Sussex and the belief was that the Nazis would not wage war on a country where its highest-ranking daughters were being educated.
The unlikely tale is the subject of a new film Six Minutes to Midnight, cowritten by Izzard, who grew up in the town and plays a teacher at the school along with Dench.
The school, which educated girls aged 16 to 21, had a Swastika, the German imperial flag and a Union Jack on its badge
It was founded in 1934 and headed by Frau Helene Rocholl who is believed to be connected to the Nazi regime. Pictured: girls having singing lessons in the new film
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