Word: ordensburgen
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...taken from ordinary Germans killed in air raids, and from 30,000 people associated with the old Weimar Republic who were recently purged. Thus equipped, the chosen Nazis can merge into the general population without detection. Hitler Youth are being trained in underground techniques in three schools known as Ordensburgen, and in a postgraduate institution called the Führer Schule, at Chiem See in Bavaria. The guerrilla army already numbers more than 500,000; the "general staff" has been picked...
...does two years of military service, then goes to his "province" (e.g., California) for four or five years' work in the Nazi consular service or a Nazi corporation. At about 25, if he has passed all these tests, he enters the most exalted of all Nazi schools, the Ordensburgen (Castles of the Order...
...system of training for leadership was inaugurated when the first of 32 schools, each to enroll 4,000 prospective little Fuhrers, was opened. Since 1937 all these schools have been named after Adolf Hitler, including one first named for the late youth-loving Ernst Roehm. There are also three Ordensburgen (Citadels of the Nazi Order) where, surrounded by Germanic mysticism and medieval trappings, the higher education proceeds. Finally there is the postgraduate Führerschule...
...study," during which they serve in the labor and military services and learn a trade or profession, continuing at the same time their practical political work within the numerous Party organizations. At the end of this period, one fourth of each class is picked for further training at the Ordensburgen located at Crössensee in Pomerania, Burg Vogelsang in the Rhineland, Sonthofen in Bavaria. Specializing in ideology and the theory of leadership, they spend one year at each castle. Then the final selection is made and those found to possess supreme qualities of leadership go to the Führerschule...
...crop of new Führers, selected from the ranks of Party members rushed through from the Ordensburgen, graduated last year, awaited assignments last week...
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