Well classmates - there was a fairly good relationship until the Nazis took hold, then most of them joined the Hitler Youth which some of them had to but not all of them.  Some became nasty, others were very friendly.  There were a fairly reasonable percentage of Jewish pupils in the school, in the class, which gradually got less and less because people had emigrated or there was in the same town at Fuerth a Jewish secondary school and many voluntarily changed to that.  I didn't, I stayed on until I was sixteen, the GSCE equivalent when I left school.

 

There were three of us left in the class, which must have been round about 1935 I would think, when we were approached by the sort of leading member of the Hitler Youth in the class and he told us it's about time you Jews left.  We were shocked, the three of us, we obviously went home and discussed it with our parents.  We also discussed it with some other classmates who were not outspokenly Nazis and they said 'Ignore them, stay where you are, don't leave'.  And that's what we actually did.  It was the pupils who asked us to leave, not the teachers.