Nurnberg American High School
| Nürnberg American High School (NAHS) | |
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| Location | |
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Fürth Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Coordinates | 49°27′24″N 10°59′34″E / 49.456615°N 10.992778°ECoordinates: 49°27′24″N 10°59′34″E / 49.456615°N 10.992778°E |
| Information | |
| School type | Department of Defense Dependents Schools |
| Established | 1946 |
| Status | Closed |
| Closed | 1995 |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Color(s) | Green and White |
| Mascot | Eagle |
| Newspaper | The Army Brat (1946-1953), The Trichter(1953-1986) |
| Yearbook | Annual ('47), The Voyager ('48), Voyager/Erinnerungen ('49 - '55), Nürnberg/Erinnerungen, ('56 - '60), The Eagle's Nest ('61 - '66), The Franconian ('78 - '92) |
Nürnberg American High School (NAHS) was a Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) system school located near Nürnberg Germany. One of DoDDS original five high schools in Germany, the school served the children of American military, government and civilian personnel from 1946 until its closing in 1995.
In October 1946, only a year and a half after the Allied forces defeated the German Third Reich, American dependents of high school age in the Nürnberg area began school in a former private residence in Erlangen, a university town nearby.
The freshmen met in the dining room, the sophomores in the living room, and the juniors and seniors had classes upstairs in bedrooms, according to Ed Thompson, who was there as a freshman student. About 70 students were enrolled. After Thanksgiving, classes were moved into the Science Building at Erlangen University.
Though textbooks and supplies were hard come by, the faculty of eight and a teaching principal offered the core curriculum of the time. The students responded to their straitened circumstances by writing a constitution for their student council, organizing student assemblies, and holding a number of dances, including that staple of American high schools, the junior-senior prom. Beginning in January 1947, the students had a weekly mimeographed newspaper and ended the year by publishing a mimeographed yearbook. During the spring some students had an unusual educational opportunity in that they took field trips to sessions of the Nürnberg War Trials.
In June, all the seniors in the five high schools in Germany (about 100) were given a cruise down the Rhine, a tradition that was to continue for several years. Eight students graduated that first year in a combined ceremony with Munich American High School held at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
In the fall of 1947, the school moved to 19 Tannenstrasse in Fürth, a town approximately 6.5 miles from the Nürnberg main railway station, and changed its name to Nürnberg American High School.
A former German girls school built in 1906, the building on Tannenstrasse offered facilities superior to those in Erlangen. It had a gymnasium, a large assembly room, and a large basement with a dining hall and a combination library and study hall. Nearby requisitioned three-story private homes served as dormitories.
Other facilities available to the students were a Teen-Age Club housed in the Fürth Opera House; Linde Stadium, an ice skating and swimming facility built by Nazi Germany for the 1936 Olympics; and Stein Castle, requisitioned from the Faber-Castell family. It was the scene of the Junior-Senior Prom.
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