Before the Fall — Germany
Friedrich Weimer earns a place at a NAPOLA — a National Political Institute of Education — in Brandenburg, discovering the sinister ideology beneath the elite trappings of the Nazi training school.
The NAPOLA schools were elite boarding schools established in 1933 to train the next generation of Nazi leaders. By 1944 there were 39 schools across Germany. Students were selected for ideological reliability and physical fitness. In the war's final months, NAPOLA pupils as young as 16 were sent to fight. The film depicts a system designed to produce obedient, hardened killers from children.