RARE ‘Napola’ Adolf-Hitler-Schulen towel

Original towel from the Adolf-Hitler-Schulen or Napola schools. Very nice quality braided towel with woven letters ‘Adolf-Hitler-Schulen’. Used condition. Square shape 53cm x 53cm.

Adolf Hitler Schools (AHS) were boarding schools during the Nazi era that resembled the National Political Educational Institutions (“Napolas”) and were among the Nazi elite schools.

Founded on April 20, 1937, Hitler's 48th birthday, by Reichsleiter Dr. Ley with the cooperation of Reichjugenführer B. von Schirach, the AHS aimed to gather young people to form the elite of the Third Reich and planned to open 50 institutions. In 1941, only ten opened, and by the end of 1943, the AHS had enrolled only 2,027 students.

The main reason for this failure was financial; the state could never invest large sums of money in these schools, and they also lacked popularity. Indeed, Albert Speer himself found them utterly substandard and noted that the powerful figures in power didn't even send their own children there... The "AHS" would be rivaled by the "Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten," abbreviated as "NAPOLA" or "NPEA," which would achieve greater success and train the future non-commissioned officers and officers of the "Waffen SS"...