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Ryan McDougall

Anne pays tribute to man who fled Nazi regime and founded Scottish school

Kurt Hahn fled Nazi Germany after facing persecution for speaking out against the regime (Gordonstoun/PA) -

The Princess Royal has paid tribute to the founder of an independent boarding school who fled his home country of Germany to escape the Holocaust.

Gordonstoun founder Kurt Hahn, a German Jew, fled his homeland to Moray in 1933 after speaking out about the Nazis’ rise to power.

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