90th Anniversary of Fatal UK Schoolboys' Hike in Black Forest Remembered

UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on

Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coup On 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought...

By Kate Connolly in Hofsgrund