Teacher's Fatal Mountain Hike Covered Up | English Calamity

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Hi guys, it's Tatiana Bunch, and welcome to Occurrence.

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Today's story is one that has been buried for the better half of a century.

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Jack Eaton Sr. agreed to let his son go on a school trip to another country

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with his favorite teacher and 26 other boys, but he never imagined how much

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he would come to regret that decision.

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After he lost his son on a mountain in Germany, he spent every waking moment

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trying to make the teacher responsible pay.

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But between the teacher wanting to avoid trouble himself, government officials

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scared to damage delicate relations,

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and Nazis wanting to use the story to their advantage, it would take over 80

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years for the truth to come out.

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This is the story of the English Calamity.

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© transcript Emily Beynon.

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Music.

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All sources can be found at occurrencepod.com, which is linked in the show notes,

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along with any other relevant information.

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Without further ado, Kenneth Keist was a 27-year-old teacher at the Strand School

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in South London. It was a boys' grammar school.

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Easter break was around the corner, and all the boys going on the trip were

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excited to be going with Keist.

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He was the English, German, and physical education teacher for Strain School.

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And he was going to be the only adult chaperone for the trip.

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The trip was set up differently than it normally would have been.

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Typically, the school would organize the trip, but since Kiest was the one offering

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it privately, he used a London travel agency called School Travel Service.

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The plan was for 27 boys between the ages of 12 and 17 to go on a 10-day outing

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to the Black Forest in Germany.

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I should note, this is 1936, so it's Nazi Germany. The group made it to Freiburg

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in Breisgau on April 16th and planned to start the first leg of their hike the next day.

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When they made it to town, the tourist office warned Keist that a blizzard was coming in.

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Apparently, he responded saying, The English are used to sudden changes in the weather.

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The route Keist planned was 15 miles or 24 kilometers long, and it went 3,300 feet up a mountain.

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Under the best of conditions, it was a very challenging route.

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So they were supposed to start in Freiburg, go over the Schauenslinn Mountain,

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and then go through a mountain pass before arriving at a youth hostel called

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Radschert in Totten-Tottenauberg.

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The morning they were supposed to leave, the youth hostel where they were staying,

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a weather report was posted saying that there would be a change in weather.

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It was expected to be cold with fog in the morning and a snowstorm later on.

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Right before they were supposed to leave, Keast asked the warden of the hostel

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and the storekeeper for directions to the Shaolin Mountain.

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When they heard of Keast's plans,

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they both warned him not to use any snow-covered trails no matter what.

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They both told him that if he was set on going on this journey,

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then he needed to stick to only the roads that had been cleared already.

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Both of the men were experienced mountain hikers themselves. selves.

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While they were drawing the path on Keist's map for him to follow,

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they noticed his map was not as detailed as it should have been.

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The map Keist was using was from the travel agency with a scale of 1 to 100,000.

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It showed the main trails, but it didn't show the topography,

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like the elevation, important structures, shortcuts, and, you know,

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other important details you should know before climbing a mountain,

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especially with almost 30 kids.

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I'm assuming the scale measurements were one centimeter on the map is 100,000

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centimeters on the ground, which is one kilometer.

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But the Black Forest Association published a detailed hiking map Keist could have followed.

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It had all of the info he needed, so it's unclear why he didn't get one for himself.

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After that, the group was on their way, but while they were leaving,

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the hostel workers noticed the boys were dressed in summer clothing.

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They were wearing shorts, light jackets, and sandals, and they didn't see anyone

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carrying water or wearing a hat.

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So they decided not to say anything because they assumed Keese knew what he was doing.

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At the bottom of the travel itinerary, there was a note saying they could shorten

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the amount of time spent walking and the journey overall if they took a tram

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to the bottom of the mountain, or a cable car up the mountain.

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If he did either of those things, he would have seen the weather report again

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that showed cold weather, fog in the morning, and several inches of snow being expected.

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Instead, they walked from the hostel and followed the tram lines almost two

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miles and then left the clear roads at a village right at the mountain base.

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During the walk over to the mountain, it started noticeably snowing.

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Prior to this, there might have been a little precipitation.

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But now it was full-on snowing, and the snow was sticking.

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Two employees from the Freiburg Bus Company see them while they're shoveling

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snow for the buses. When they leave the cleared roads, Keist takes them to the north.

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Apparently, this is not the direction he was supposed to go in,

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and the assumption is that he wanted to try a shortcut.

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The path he chose to take took them past an inn.

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One of the owners and his son were on their way into town so that they could

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try and grab supplies to be better prepared for this storm.

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They saw the group on their way into town.

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Keist and the others continued on their way, and within 30 minutes, were lost.

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About three hours into the hike, they came out of the forest and into a clearing.

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The snow was still falling, but kids will be kids, and they broke the formation

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they were walking in and started a snowball fight.

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Keese took note of their light clothing and that the snow was starting to pick

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up a bit more and got on them about playing around instead of focusing on the journey ahead of them.

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A 13-year-old, who sent a postcard home before the hike started,

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wrote in his notebook that they had breakfast and left Freiburg at 9 o'clock.

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Then it was snowing and they got lost.

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Once they got moving again, they ended up walking in a giant circle and eventually

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made their way back to the inn.

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They were behind schedule, so Keist entered the inn and went up to the landlady

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and asked for directions to the Shao and Selene Peak.

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She was obviously surprised by that question because she asked him,

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you want to go up the mountain with all of this snow and with the weather being like this?

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And Keist just goes, yes.

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So then the landlady goes, you picked the longest this route going this way,

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and you're going to get lost in the blizzard.

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And Keist says, there's signposts, you know, I can just follow those.

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And the landlady warns him that by the time he makes it to the area where the

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posts are, they'll be completely covered in snow.

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And Keist, clearly not liking hearing that it's not a good idea to continue

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on again, says something along the lines of, we'll just brush them off,

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and then just kind of storms out.

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The owner and his son came back during that conversation, and when they saw

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the boys again, they said they had snow all on their heads and they looked like

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they were in poor condition from the cold.

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The landlady didn't even realize they were children with Keast until her husband and son came back.

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All three of them watched the group walk up the slope, and the shorts made an

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impression on the landlady because she called them little lads in shorts.

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But the sentiment from the family was that they were horrified to watch the

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group going up the slope.

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About an hour after leaving the inn, Keist gets lost again, but eventually he

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leads them around three miles past two waypoints.

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It's around 2.30pm when they are literally kicking their way through snow,

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and they're heading to the most dangerous spot on the mountain.

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They're on an open hillside and run into two woodcutters.

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The woodcutters stopped working because the weather was getting too bad for

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them to continue, so they were on their way home.

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They told Keist not to continue.

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He insisted on going to the peak, so they told him to take the path to the left of the valley.

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The group continued on for another 30 minutes, following the direction of the

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woodcutters, and the snow is now two feet deep and still falling.

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Two of the youngest members of the group start complaining about how cold they

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are, and another boy is starting to slip and stumble around a lot.

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The blizzard is getting worse, and 15 minutes later, they reach the base of

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the valley where they run into the local postman.

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Keist asks him if they were on the right path and how much further it went.

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The postman tells him, yes, you're on the right path to Tottenham Aberde.

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But if you keep going, the weather is so bad that you won't make it. You can't keep going.

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You can try when the weather clears and the visibility is good.

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And for now, you can go to the miners house. There was a miners hostel just

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a few minutes away that had plenty of space and and beds, and food for everyone in the group.

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The postman begged, in the middle of a blizzard, over and over again to Keist.

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He told him he would not make it through the blizzard.

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He offered to take him to the miners' hostel. I mean, he even offered to guide

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them to Freiburg, the town they started in.

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And Keist just responded with, we'll manage.

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The postman would later say that Keist's behavior was irresponsible and senseless

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and that he should not have taken one more step towards his destination.

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He steps aside, and when he looked at the boys following Keast into certain

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disaster, he saw how wet they all were, and how they all had piles of snow in

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their hair, and he said they all looked miserable.

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You could see them suffering. And one of the small ones at the end was hobbling

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along, barely able to keep up.

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If the postman saw his own child in that group, he said he would have pulled

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them from the line and took them home immediately. immediately and their teacher

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could have gone back with him too.

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Instead, he marched the children to their deaths.

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But Keist wasn't too worried yet, so they continued on.

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And at some point, the slippery conditions made him stop and ask each boy how they were doing.

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A few of them were complaining about the cold, but Keist thought that turning

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back at that point would be more dangerous than to continue to the nearby village named Hofskrund.

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He was hoping to find shelter at a hotel or a peasant's house.

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But with the map Keist was using from the school travel service,

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it didn't show that the steepest and most dangerous ridge of the mountain was

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between him and the village.

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It was literally on the other side of the summit.

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So they continued on. The mountain face they're on is just under 2,000 feet

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high with a 70% gradient.

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Okay, so there's a slope steepness index and it's broken up at different levels.

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You have 0% being level like a flat floor and then you have anything over 100%

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being a very steep slope.

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The section from 70% to 100% is extreme slope or steep slope.

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So to have children here and in this weather is just mind-boggling.

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I know he didn't have the correct map.

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Seriously, that is just so steep, and the route he's taking actually has them

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miss the mountain summit by just a little bit.

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As they're hiking up the mountain, people at the miners' hostel see the group.

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They notice them stumbling in the distance, going up a bit, and then going down, and then back up.

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They are seen very clearly struggling and suffering around 4pm,

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right before they disappear into the forest.

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An hour later, they made it to the base of the mountain peak.

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Peak and Strand School's 14-year-old boxing champion, Jack Eaton, collapses.

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They give him an orange and a piece of cake and told him to buck up.

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Some of the other boys help him continue on while they sing songs as they kept

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climbing to the peak. The snow is up to their waist.

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When they make it on the ridge, they aren't protected by a wall of rock anymore

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and are hit with the full force of the wind.

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Keist, trying to get away from the wind, turned to the west and quickly got lost.

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Had he gone less than a mile to the east once they made it onto the ridge,

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he would have been able to take shelter in the summit station.

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Also, he would have been going in the right direction to Hofskrund.

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The group had been walking for nine hours now and two of the youngest boys,

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along with Jack, now had to be carried.

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Three others were struggling and getting worse in a hurry.

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What What happened at this point isn't clear, but for some reason, the group separated.

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Keist later said he sent the older boys off on a well-organized search to find

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help, but I think it's quietly believed that the older boys abandoned the group

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to save themselves when the younger ones started holding them back.

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Keist wasn't leading them in the right direction to begin with,

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to Hoff's grunt, so I think it's safe to say that well-organized was far from

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the correct description of what happened next.

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Everyone broke off into three or four smaller groups and scattered on the mountain

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in different directions.

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In those smaller groups, boys started collapsing and they had to stop to start CPR.

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It was after 6 p.m. and it was getting colder and darker as time went on.

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The older boys were now starting to struggle.

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Frostbite was affecting everyone and it seemed like all hope was lost.

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Hofskrand was a 300-person village in the Black Forest. It had one inn,

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farmhouses with steep slate roofs that animals and humans would share living

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in during the long winters, and one church.

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At 7pm, the church rang its bells, and the sound was carried into the wind.

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Keist heard the bells and told two of the older boys still with him to follow

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the sound down the mountain and get help.

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They passed most of the others still trying to revive the boys that collapsed

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on their way to the church.

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Around 8.30pm, the two boys spotted a farmhouse on the outskirts of Hofsgrund

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and they rushed to knock on the door.

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The villager who lived there had spent the day at home, like most of the villagers.

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I'll call him B. The boys caught B just in time because he was about to head

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out to get the weekly bread delivery.

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He answered the door and, in broken German, the Strand School boy said.

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Two men sick on the mountain.

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The villager rushed over to the village inn where he could see lanterns burning

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and people playing cards, and he started banging on the windows.

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He gathered a group of rescuers and they threw on skis and went to the road.

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A few of the boys were making their way down the hill, but most of them were

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spread out across the mountainside.

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Some of the boys who collapsed were covered in snow. They barely spotted them.

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B found two more boys lying completely still in the snow.

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A grocer took one unconscious boy to his shop and a farmer took another to his farmhouse.

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They tried to put the boys they found on the skis to use them like stretchers,

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but the snow was just too deep and powdery.

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They had to grab a sleigh to drag them down the mountain.

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They found one boy named Stanley Lyons just 30 feet from the inn.

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He was likely already dead, but the villagers still tried to save him.

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And then B and four other farmers went further up the mountain,

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sharing one lamp between them.

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They found Kiest with two unconscious

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boys, and he told them in German how many there were in the group.

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He was over 40 minutes away from the nearest group members.

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Now, while this group of five villagers was looking for boys,

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other villagers joined the search, because underneath the blizzard wind,

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you could hear the rest of the stranded boys crying for help.

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The sound could be heard from all over, and another villager followed the sound

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of the crying for 45 minutes.

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He found three boys suffering and exposed in the cold.

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The villagers would work until they found every single boy.

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They were digging and marching through several feet of snow.

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They were getting soaked from the blizzard and sweating with how hard they were

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working to save as many as they could.

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They would be out there until after 11 p.m.

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They got medical help from wherever they could find it. There was a doctor on

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vacation nearby, and they had him help with the more serious cases.

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Another doctor had to abandon his ambulance and walk his horses through two

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miles of snow up to his chest.

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By the time medical help arrived, it was too late for two boys,

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but the villagers were still trying to keep them alive.

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One was 13-year-old Peter Ellerkamp, who passed around 7 p.m.

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Next to an older student.

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The other was 12-year-old Francis Spurgeon, who also passed around 7 p.m.

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Next to Keist and an older student.

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Everyone who wasn't considered to be a serious case was beaten with brooms to

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get the snow off them and to get their blood flowing.

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After that, they were allowed to go near a huge wood stove that they had burning.

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They were wrapped in blankets to keep them warm while they ate and drank coffee.

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Once they were sure they were stable, they were sent to bed.

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By the end of the evening, two more boys would be dead.

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13-year-old Stanley Lyons, who passed at 9 p.m. in the farmhouse,

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along with 14-year-old Jack Eaton Jr., who was found in the snow next to two older boys.

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They estimate he passed around 6 p.m. He was two months away from his 15th birthday.

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In the morning, they took two boys to the university hospital in Freiburg since

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they were still extremely ill.

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It was 14-year-old Arthur Roberts and Roy Witham.

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Roy never woke up. The doctors did everything they could to save them,

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but there's only so much you can do for someone who's been in a blizzard for

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the better part of 12 hours,

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especially children dressed like they're going on a picnic in a park in the spring.

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It just makes me so angry, and I don't even think that's the right word for

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it. But what happens next is somehow worse.

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Because after the remains of the boys were put in the cellar of the Hofstrand

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Village Hall, they were sent to Freiburg and laid in the chapel at the main cemetery.

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The survivors were eventually taken to Freiburg for medical checks.

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And it wouldn't be until two days later that the children were told five of

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their friends were gone, and one was still fighting for his life.

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And they had absolutely no idea that they were about to become the poster children

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for Nazi propaganda of unimaginable proportions.

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To set the stage, Hitler rose to power like three years before this,

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and the relationship between Britain and Germany had been strained ever since.

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Just a few days before this disaster,

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the British had a funeral for their German ambassador to Britain.

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The funeral was used as propaganda too, because they had the Nazi symbol on

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his coffin, which was being escorted by British guardsmen.

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And people all around were giving the one-hand salute.

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The ambassador was believed to be the best hopes for keeping peaceful Anglo-German relations.

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So keep that in mind. To try and beat the breaking news and reassure the parents

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of the boys that were okay, they had the survivors write a letter home to their parents.

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Most Brits found out about the Black Forest tragedy in the newspaper the next day.

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And every day after for a while, the stories of Boy Blizzard's Battle and Saved

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by the Bells and Rescue Dash were everywhere.

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The media hounded Keist, trying to get information for their stories,

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so eventually he caved and started saying whatever he could to cover his behind.

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He said things like, I thought there would be a hut, but when we got to the

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top of the hill, the fog was too thick.

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And no one in England could ever imagine what that snowstorm was like.

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And then he started playing the victim by saying he was suffering.

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They were all suffering. He was crying.

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Before then, he quickly pivoted to being the hero. He would talk about how he

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bravely sent the boys down the mountain to get help once he saw the light of

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Hoff's grunt, and how since some of the boys couldn't keep going themselves, he carried them.

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He took turns putting them on his back and marching forwards.

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He told stories about how the boys were listening and no one panicked,

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and everyone was completely composed.

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Keist would talk about how no one expected a storm and it came out of nowhere

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and that he put everything he had into stopping the tragedy and that the reason

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they were scattered was because once they started dropping,

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he left the one who couldn't keep going with one or two others until they could all be rescued.

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He even came up with a story about how when they were coming down the mountain, they couldn't make it.

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Because it was so bad that their skis, that were over seven feet long,

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sank, and they had to climb down sideways.

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At the same time, Kiest and the boys were still in Freiburg,

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and German officials wanted to use what happened to their advantage.

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The leader of the Hitler Youth Movement had a wreath from the movement placed

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on all of the coffins of the boys that didn't survive to show their supposed

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heartfelt and deep sympathy.

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They also had Hitler Youth stand guard 24-7 over the coffins until they were sent back to Britain.

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At one point, they had thousands of people from Freiburg come and pay their

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respects, while Kiest, seven of the older boys, and British diplomats were there.

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With the youth movement in their uniforms and symbols watching over the Brits,

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the youth leader gave a speech about understanding and peace between the English

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and the Germans, and the entire thing was highly publicized.

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During that ceremony, the 15 younger boys were playing a game with the older

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boys of the youth movement.

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It was their job to entertain them and keep their minds off of things,

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probably so they wouldn't interrupt the ceremony.

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Now, the Monday after was Hitler's birthday, so it was just another chance to do something big.

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They had a procession led by local dignitaries that led to the main train station.

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They formed a guard with hundreds of boys from the Hitler Youth and the girl

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equivalent called the Union of German Girls to surround the coffins.

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They had hundreds of Freiburg school children line the route to watch as the

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coffins were loaded to the train.

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The surviving boys were loaded onto two separate trains with 20 members of the

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youth movement, as it made its way through Germany and to the border.

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People lined the streets to throw sweets to the boys as they passed through the border of Belgium.

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At this point, Hitler Youth was taking credit in the rescue too.

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The mayor of Freiburg wrote to the father of one of the boys who passed,

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saying, The boy was sacrificed to be a symbol for why it's important that there's

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understanding between Germany and Britain.

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Apparently, Freiburg officials went along with it because they were worried

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about the disaster ruining tourism in the Black Forest region.

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It was a popular area for British tourists and school parties.

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Parents of the boys wrote to Hitler, thanking him for the send-off and the German

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state railways because they waived the fee that they would have had to pay to

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have the coffins sent home.

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The coffins were made of black forest timber.

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And while the boys were sent home, Kiest stayed in Germany as a guest of the Hitler Youth.

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He was spotted in a car with the youth movement leader and the state police.

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Keist wrote a letter thanking Hofsgrund that was later published in the newspaper.

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He said he could never forget their superhuman efforts and everything they did to bring them to safety.

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It brought Britain closer to a country that it used to be at odds with.

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When he finally made it back to London himself, his parents' house was surrounded

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by reporters, so he left. He ended up meeting another teacher who he fell in

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love with and, in a letter to her, he complained that he wasn't able to sleep.

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Thanked her for bringing him whatever sanity he could find.

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He also said that in spite of everything, that was the happiest day of his life.

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Over the next few days, the boys were buried, including Jack Eaton,

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who had thousands of mourners.

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His father, Jack Sr., along with more than a few locals, did not believe the

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story Keist was telling.

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Jack Sr. was a self-made man and proud of his successful construction business.

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He loved his son. He said that Jack was everything he wanted to be.

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The day after the disaster, he grabbed a solicitor and an interpreter and made his way to Freiburg.

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He followed the same path as the boys and interviewed rescuers and other witnesses.

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He even got the map Keist used from the public prosecutor.

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Everyone told him how they repeatedly told Keist to turn back,

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and he never did. and it all just made Jack Sr.

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Swear that he wouldn't stop until there was a proper investigation into what

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really happened in the Black Forest.

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He wrote Black Forest Tragedy, The Truth, which was a 10-page report on his

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investigation into the disaster.

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He sent it to newspapers, politicians, and every single family involved in what happened.

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He was determined to fight until the end for his son along with the other boys

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who should have come home.

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Jack Sr. believed that everyone probably would have died if it wasn't for the

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church bells of Hofskrund, and I think I agree.

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He also said Keist was very open about his dislike of Germans.

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And that it's probably what made him feel like it was beneath him to accept

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a German's word of advice.

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By all appearances, at least publicly, Jack Sr.

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Was the only person actively trying to have an investigation.

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Litigation, but privately it seems like officials knew that there was more to

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the story that they just didn't want to let out.

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Ten days after the disaster, a British official wrote to the Foreign Office

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saying that he had doubts about Keese's conduct on the tour and felt it deserved to be looked into.

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He said that it probably would have been avoided if Keese had actually been

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in touch and advanced with the Hitler Youth, who told him that they would have

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been happy to accompany the group and could have helped lead them safely out of the blizzard.

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He also suggested that any future British school trips to the Black Forest should

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reach out to the movement.

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A letter to that official's boss said that the Germans were very sensitive about

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the case and quickly shut it down.

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Apparently, a French radio station blamed the German authorities being the reason

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for the disaster, and the German government wanted to make sure that no official

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or citizen was held responsible in any way.

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The Strand School and the London County Council also didn't want to be put in

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the position of having to explain how poorly planned the trip was and why it

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was allowed for one teacher to be in charge of 27 boys.

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And while the committee said that any charges against Keist were withdrawn,

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they later told him to cancel the school ski trip to Austria that he was planning

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just eight months after the Black Forest disaster.

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Now, that happened after a two-day meeting held by the education committee where Jack Sr.

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Tore accused of failing to help the little ones, he confronted Keist at the

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school gates to tell him to cancel the Austria trip.

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Keist was then forced to write to the parents that agreed to let their sons

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go on the trip and tell them that it was canceled.

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Keist would later say that it left him feeling finished and aimless and that

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it seemed like the school and the council were completely under Jack Sr.'s thumb.

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And he was relentless because Jack Sr. harassed him at work,

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at his parents' house, where he lived, to the point where Keist was about to

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crack and make a criminal complaint.

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One time, he even wrote that if Jack Sr. bothered him one weekend,

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he would assault him and figured if he murdered Jack Sr., it would be the best way to end his misery.

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Jack Sr. once approached a student from the Strand School and berated him for

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wearing the uniform of the school that killed his son.

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That student wasn't involved in Black Forest at all.

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And outside of his business, he had a plaque that said, I charge Keist with

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my son's death. And the day his son was supposed to turn 16, Jack Sr. was arrested.

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He laid wreaths at Key Store and stood outside yelling, my son has been murdered,

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wearing a black armband.

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So I would say that, yes, he was kind of a menace to society at that point.

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He was so devastated, and his wife was too.

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They moved after their son passed because the house that they were in had too

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many memories. They turned their new home into a shrine for their son,

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with pictures of him and all of his sports gear.

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The new house was also closer to the cemetery where he was buried.

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Two years after losing Jack, the Eatons had a daughter that they named Jacqueline. Jack Sr.

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Never got his public inquiry, so I'm not sure if he truly found peace.

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There are reports he died in a psychiatric hospital, but I haven't been able

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to find the records of that, so I don't know how true that information is.

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Keese switched schools a few years after the disaster and then became headmaster

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somewhere else before records of him were no longer found.

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But I found an article written by a former student of his that said,

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Keese finished his career at Marlborough College.

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It's a public school in England that teaches kids aged 13 to 18.

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The student said Keese taught A-level German and he had absolutely no idea of Keist's past.

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He was actually surprised to read that Keist openly disliked Germans.

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Kenneth Keist died in 1971.

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The former student ended his article with a question.

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He asked, if a teacher who led a group where five students died,

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be able to continue teaching.

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And that same idea was questioned just a few months prior because on the 80th

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anniversary of the Black Forest disaster, faster, a group of villagers met at

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the place where the boys stayed the night after being rescued.

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The teacher and historian who stumbled onto the story and spent a decade researching

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it said that as a teacher, he wouldn't have been able to live with himself if

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it happened to him, and he would have thrown it in after that.

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And I agree. I mean, I've been coaching gymnastics on and off for many years,

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and I just can't wrap my head around my kids having something like that happened

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to them, let alone being the reason for it.

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And I say my kids as in my athletes, because in the gym, they are my kids.

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I'm responsible for their safety and happiness and learning and everything else.

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And I'm sure if any of you are listening and you're a teacher or a coach, you feel the same.

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One of the villagers at the meetup was the grandson of someone involved in the rescue.

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And he said, to this day, everyone is shocked at how lightly dressed the boys were.

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Nobody in the village even lets their kids outside without at least a hat on in April.

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The daughter of one of the boys rescued said her father didn't really talk about

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what happened, but he did tell her about the kindness of the villagers and how

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they helped him without thinking about their own safety.

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And it's believed the only reason her father even survived long enough to be

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rescued was because he brought a bite cape that he took from his father for the journey.

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He was only four feet tall at the time and one of the smallest in the group,

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but he was able to wrap it around his body to try and keep warm.

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Today, there are two sculptures remembering the disaster, one that the villagers

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were originally part of before Hitler took it over and had someone make a huge

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gateway on the mountainside over Hofsgrund.

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It has two stones standing up with a third stone lying on top and connecting both.

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The two stones standing up have the names of the boys inscribed.

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The one on top has Nazi symbolism. The whole thing is made of black forest granite.

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When Germany and Britain went to war, it ruined the inauguration plans to have

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the royal family and other British officials visit.

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German officials wanted to tear it down several times, but never got around to it.

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The parents of the boys made their own memorial too, and it's the only one where

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the villagers are thanked for what they did.

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It's in the entrance to the village church.

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And not even a year after the disaster, Jack Sr. had a sculpture created for his son.

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It's a cross that looks like a gravestone, and it's made of black forest granite.

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It sits on the mountainside in the spot where Jack Jr., Peter Ellerkamp, and Stanley Lyons died.

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There's an inscription on it, and Jack Sr. wanted to include,

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their teacher failed them in the hour of trial.

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But German officials vetoed that, so where that line is supposed to be, it's just blank.

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The villagers paid for Jack's memorial to be made, and I think it says a lot

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that he wanted to do a separate one for his son.

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The villagers involved in the rescue said, decades later, their memories of

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the Englishman's misadventure were as fresh as the day it happened.

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Stay safe and see you next Thursday.

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Music.