Shouldn't really be surprised, I suppose. "The curious story of a Nazi finishing school on the southeast coast of England for daughters of the German regime has inspired a new film starring Dame Judi Dench. Augusta Victoria College in Bexhill-on-Sea educated two dozen daughters of prominent Nazi figures in the 1930s. The pupils included the goddaughter of Heinrich Himmler, the daughter of Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Countess Haldenberg, niece to the German ambassador Herbert von Dirksen, and Isa von Bergen, the daughter of Hitler's ambassador to the Vatican. They were sent to improve their English and become eligible young women before entering society, The Telegraph reported. It was hoped that the seaside school could help relations between Britain and Germany and stave off a potential war. Despite anti-German sentiment growing in Britain, the girls were welcomed in East Sussex and the belief was that the Nazis would not wage war on a country where its highest-ranking daughters were being educated. The unlikely tale is the subject of a new film Six Minutes to Midnight, cowritten by Izzard, who grew up in the town and plays a teacher at the school along with Dench." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9360229/Inside-Nazi-finishing-school-Bexhill-Sea-inspired-new-film-starring-Judi-Dench.html