Before the Fall (Napola)

This award winning drama set in Berlin 1942 and tells the story of a young factory worker whose boxing talent gets him into the National Political Academy (NaPolA), a high school that grooms young Germans for positions of power both at home and abroad using military techniques to encourage loyalty to the Hitler and conformity with Nazi ideology. Lured by promises of wealth and Olympic glory, Friedrich defies his Anti-Nazi father and is soon immersed in the school's brutal curriculum. Uniformed and eager, he and the other new cadets learn weaponry and anti-Semitism with equal punctiliousness. There is no time, or intellectual space, for the flexing of a moral conscience.