page_title: National Political Institutes of Education
hierarchical_section_title: National Political Institutes of Education
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Nationalpolitsche Erziehungsanstalt In den alten Mauern der historischen Erziehungsanstalt Wiens, dem "Theresianum" zog der junge Geist der neuen deutschen nationalpolitischen Erziehung ein und in dem neuen Wien-Theresianum konnte in diesem Jahre der Gründungstag der ostmärkischen nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt feierlich begangen werden.... Jungmannen der Anstalt des Wien-Theresianums verlassen am Sonnabend nachmittag nach dem Dienst in ihrer schmucken Uniform das historische Haus.
context_page_description: National Political Institutes of Education were secondary boarding schools in Nazi Germany. They were founded as "community education sites" after the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933.
context_section_description: National Political Institutes of Education (German: Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten; officially abbreviated NPEA, commonly abbreviated Napola for Nationalpolitische Lehranstalt meaning National Political Institution of Teaching) were secondary boarding schools in Nazi Germany. They were founded as "community education sites" after the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933.
caption: Students at the entrance of NPEA Vienna-Theresianum in Vienna, 1940
exif: {}