2. NS Ordensburg
NS Ordensburg is a term referring to three remote castle-like schools intended to serve as an education center for future Nazi party leaders. The power-hungry Adolf Hitler wanted to ensure the constant flow of devoted party members, and he saw the education system as a breakthrough to achieving this goal.
The first of these three schools Ordensburg Sonthofen was built in 1934, in Allgau following Hermann Giesler’s design. The other two were Krossinsee in Pomerania and Vogelsang in Eifel. All of them had sports gymnasiums, cinemas and most importantly, state-of-art technology on top of other commodities.
It enrolled as students a select group of trustworthy candidates of “pure blood”, as a way to nurture the elite status. These candidates aged between 25 and 30 years had to be both physically and mentally fit. Most importantly, they had to be members of some form of Nazi organization -Hitler Youth, the SS or the actual Nazi Party.
When the Third Reich fell, these schools were used for military purposes by the countries that inherited them. One of them, Krossinsee located in Pomerania is still used as a military base for sections of the Polish Army. The other two are currently historic sites for tourist attractions.