The Black Forest, 1936: Five Boys Died and the Propaganda Story Was Rebuilt
On 17 April 1936, twenty-seven London schoolboys and their teacher, Kenneth Keast, walked across Schauinsland in southern Germany. Temperatures fell below freezing, snow thickened, and strong wind erased the path. Several boys wore shorts, thin raincoats, or even sandals. Five boys aged between 12 and 14 died from exhaustion and hypothermia. [Bernd Hainmüller’s documentation](https://hainmueller.de/publikationen/17-a
On 17 April 1936, twenty-seven London schoolboys and their teacher, Kenneth Keast, walked across Schauinsland in southern Germany. Temperatures fell below freezing, snow thickened, and strong wind erased the path. Several boys wore shorts, thin raincoats, or even sandals. Five boys aged between 12 and 14 died from exhaustion and hypothermia. Bernd Hainmüller’s documentation records how villagers from Hofsgrund followed church bells, carrying sledges and storm lanterns to find children scattered across the mountain.
On 17 April 1936, twenty-seven London schoolboys and their teacher, Kenneth Keast, walked across Schauinsland in southern Germany. Temperatures fell below freezing, snow thickened, and strong wind erased the path. Several boys wore shorts, thin raincoats, or even sandals. Five boys aged between 12 and 14 died from exhaustion and hypothermia. [Bernd Hainmüller’s documentation](https://hainmueller.de/publikationen/17-a
On 17 April 1936, twenty-seven London schoolboys and their teacher, Kenneth Keast, walked across Schauinsland in southern Germany. Temperatures fell below freezing, snow thickened, and strong wind erased the path. Several boys wore shorts, thin raincoats, or even sandals. Five boys aged between 12 and 14 died from exhaustion and hypothermia. [Bernd Hainmüller’s documentation](https://hainmueller.de/publikationen/17-a
On 17 April 1936, twenty-seven London schoolboys and their teacher, Kenneth Keast, walked across Schauinsland in southern Germany. Temperatures fell below freezing, snow thickened, and strong wind erased the path. Several boys wore shorts, thin raincoats, or even sandals. Five boys aged between 12 and 14 died from exhaustion and hypothermia. [Bernd Hainmüller’s documentation](https://hainmueller.de/publikationen/17-a
On 17 April 1936, twenty-seven London schoolboys and their teacher, Kenneth Keast, walked across Schauinsland in southern Germany. Temperatures fell below freezing, snow thickened, and strong wind erased the path. Several boys wore shorts, thin raincoats, or even sandals. Five boys aged between 12 and 14 died from exhaustion and hypothermia. [Bernd Hainmüller’s documentation](https://hainmueller.de/publikationen/17-a