From the children growing up in the German state where oversight was under the Third Reich, in the mid-twentieth century, to the current freshman class of United States Naval Academy – West Point both share a commonality, that can be thought of as shocking and appalling at the same time. This commonality is educational pedagogy, socialisation and training practices that are intrinsically Spartan in origin and modelled on the Spartan agoge. The ultimate outcome was of this learning and training was the creation of a superior male role or figure.
