In 1936, an English schoolteacher led a group of 27 boys on a hiking tour of Germany. What happened next was a horrible tragedy, that turned into a public relations coup for the Nazi regime.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/fatal-hike-became-nazi-propaganda-coup

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-freiburg-school-trip-disast/54890384/

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