Word: ordensburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leader Adolf Hitler, after becoming Chancellor in 1933, founded four national Ordensburgs or Schools for Leaders. It will take five more years to complete these elaborate establishments, featured by "castles" built like medieval keeps, where the Leaders will be schooled. Most nearly completed is Castle Crossen-see in Pomerania, where the Leaders sleep in low, thatched buildings intended to suggest National Socialist links with the peasantry and the soil. Training at Crossensee of the first class of Leaders has just been completed and they are now going to work as teachers of 1,080 Leaders, youths between...
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