Participant Info
- First Name
- Helen
- Last Name
- Roche
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- helen.rochedelabaume@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Durham
- Website URL
- helenroche.com / https://archivetales.com/
- Keywords
- National Socialism, fascism, Nazi Germany, Third Reich, elite schools, oral history, education history, classical reception, philhellenism, Napola, Prussia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sparta
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
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- About Me
- Dr. Helen Roche is Assistant Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham, UK. Previously, Helen held Research Fellowships at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the University of Cambridge, having completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.Publications include Sparta’s German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920, and in National Socialist Elite Schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945 (2013) and Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (ed., 2018). Her article ‘Surviving Stunde Null‘ was awarded German History journal’s “Best Article of 2015” prize, and her second monograph, entitled The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
- Recent Publications
- ‘The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism’, The Historical Journal 61 (2), 2018, pp. 541-60.
- ‘Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung’, in Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?, ed. Norbert Frei, Göttingen 2018, pp. 154-72.
- ‘Blüte und Zerfall: “Schematic Narrative Templates” of decline and fall in völkisch and National Socialist racial ideology’, in The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism, ed. Lara Day, Oliver Haag, Oxford 2017, pp. 65-86.
- ‘Distant Models? Italian Fascism, National Socialism and the Lure of the Classics’, in Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, ed. Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou, Leiden 2017, pp. 3-29.
- ‘Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-teaching in secondary schools’, in Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, ed. Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou, Leiden 2017, pp. 238-63.
- ‘Sport, Leibeserziehung und vormilitärische Ausbildung in den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten: Eine “radikale” Revolution der körperlichen Bildung im Rahmen der NS-“Gesamterziehung”?’, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus 32, 2016 (Special Issue on Sport und Nationalsozialismus, ed. Frank Becker, Ralf Schäfer), pp. 173-96.
- ‘Herrschaft durch Schulung: The Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten and the Third Reich’s Germanising mission’, in Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewusstsein im östlichen Europa, ed. Burkhard Olschowsky, Ingo Loose, Berlin 2016, pp. 127-51.
- ‘Surviving Stunde Null: Narrating the fate of Nazi elite-school pupils during the collapse of the Third Reich’, German History 33 (4), 2015, pp. 570-87 (awarded German History journal’s “Best Article of 2015 Prize”).
- Sparta’s German Children. The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps, 1818-1920, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945, Swansea, 2013.
- Media Coverage
- https://archivetales.com/media/
- Social Media
- @Dr_Helen_Roche
- Country Focus
- Germany, Austria, Italy
- Expertise by Geography
- Germany, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Genocide, Higher Ed, Military, Pedagogy, Politics
