A number of students and teachers were caught up in the Great Purge and the so-called Hitler Youth Conspiracy, many of them executed.
Numerous members went to the Soviet Union, both for training and as refugees from persecution by political enemies.
[1] Hans Hauska, a member of the German Theater's Left Column, led the choir.
Also, common to other schools employing ideas of progressive education, there no tests or grades, however some by 1935, some practices were "denounced as Trotskyite" and were abandoned.
[5] The previous headmaster was Helmut Schinkel,[1] who had begun working there in 1932,[6] but had made political mistakes.
[8] Two teachers, Kurt Bertram and Rudolf Senglaub, and thirteen students were arrested in the Hitler Youth Conspiracy, including Kurt Ahrendt, a leader of the Young Pioneers,[9] who was executed three weeks after his arrest.