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[[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany The year is 1942.]] Having come to the schools' attention as a promising young boxer, working-class teenager Friedrich receives a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school, designed to groom the younger generation for leadership positions in the Nazi Party. When his parents refuse to let him attend, he [[TheRunaway runs away from home and falsifies their consent]] in order to attend. The camaraderie and opportunities afforded are at first a blessing, and he soon finds friends, including Albrecht, the introverted son of a high-ranking official. But as the year goes on the ugliness and violent hazing hiding beneath the school's idyllic surface become clear, with serious consequences for both boys.

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[[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany The year is 1942.]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1942]], in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. Having come to the schools' attention as a promising young boxer, working-class teenager Friedrich receives a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school, designed to groom the younger generation for leadership positions in the Nazi Party. When his parents refuse to let him attend, he [[TheRunaway runs away from home and falsifies their consent]] in order to attend. The camaraderie and opportunities afforded are at first a blessing, and he soon finds friends, including Albrecht, the introverted son of a high-ranking official. But as the year goes on the ugliness and violent hazing hiding beneath the school's idyllic surface become clear, with serious consequences for both boys.

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* ToughLove: Friedrich's dad tries to keep him form joining the academy and slaps him when he persists but its kind of hard to blame him.

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* ToughLove: Friedrich's dad tries to keep him form from joining the academy and slaps him when he persists but its kind of hard to blame him.
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* NouveauRiche: Albrecht's father is heavily hinted have gained power and influence within the party. At some point in the movie he states that he'd have wished to attend a school like Napola as a boy instead of having to start working in his teens. Another hint is when Friedrich is invited at Albrecht's home and compliments his friend for his fancy house, and Albrecht explains that it has been requisitioned pre-furnished, meaning that the house has not always been theirs.

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* NouveauRiche: It is heavily implied that Albrecht's father is heavily hinted have has gained quite a bit of power and influence within the party. At some point in the movie he states that he'd have wished to attend a school like Napola as a boy instead of having to start working in his teens. Another hint is when Friedrich is invited at Albrecht's home and compliments his friend for his fancy house, and Albrecht explains that it has been requisitioned pre-furnished, meaning that the house has not always been theirs.

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