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A most curious school sat on the shores of the English Channel during the 1930s.
Augusta Victoria College, located in Bexhill-on-Sea, was, for the most part, a finishing school which taught 16 to 21 year old girls the accoutrements needed to enter British society. With their training in hand, they would be well positioned to attract a man of a certain stature.
OK, fine, weâve all heard of finishing schools, a somewhat regressive educational model.
But this one was unique because of the pedigree of its students, many of whom were from the families of the Nazi High Command during Hitlerâs reign. The school included Nazi salutes, and a badge that featuring two symbols the Union Jack opposite a Swastika.
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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.