Model aircraft and drawing at the Zinnowwaldschule, 1937
Boys in white coats build the ribbed frames of model aircraft from a plan, girls paint in watercolour, and pupils stream out with their bicycles.
In a dim workshop boys in white coats bend over benches of wooden strips, a teacher in spectacles among them; they hold up the skeleton of a model aircraft, fit curved ribs and lay a finished wing section on its full-size plan. In a bright classroom rows of girls paint letters and costume figures in watercolour, and outside, beneath the name ZINNOWWALDSCHULE on the stone front, girls and women push their bicycles across the forecourt.
Model flying was the regime's school for future airmen. In April 1937 it passed to the new National Socialist Flyers Corps, backed by Hermann Göring's Air Ministry, and handicraft lessons across the Reich built gliders and model planes.
Film A wing frame laid on its construction plan, 1937
Film Boys building model aircraft in a school workshop, 1937
Film A teacher and his pupils at the workbench, 1937
Film Girls with bicycles outside the Zinnowwaldschule, 1937
Film A drawing lesson for girls, 1937
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