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Coverage of Daily Sketch in the Nexus archive.
- UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on
On 17 April 1936, 27 London schoolboys and their teacher were rescued from a deadly snowstorm in the Black Forest by German villagers, an event later exploited by Nazis for propaganda. Ninety years later, relatives and villagers commemorated the tragedy with a ceremony at St Laurentius church.