Public schools...

According to an article in today’s Guardian, the Nazis based their elite schools - set up to groom future leaders of the Third Reich - on British public schools such as Eton and Harrow. Apparently the Nazis wanted to learn from the “character-forming” example of the British school system. They also saw the largely independent role of the school headmaster as an embodiment of the “Führer-principle”. Now why does that not surprise me?...