There’s an interesting book on this subject called Hitler’s First Victims by Timothy Ryback. It chronicles how Josef Hartinger risked his career, and even his life, in pursuing justice, suggesting that history might have taken a different course if more Germans had followed his example.
Board member N.B. Hanson claimed to a reporter that Opsahl had just “made a mistake though an attempt to scare the boys.” Not only that, but the outrage over it might have been misguided. “There is no cause for such excitement as prevailed yesterday over [his] mistake. It was a prank, apparently with no criminal intent,” Hanson said. The teacher, he added, was “a young man, full of life, and has a very good record … the situation is not such as to cause so much furor.” Hanson’s own son had even tried out the chair and experienced no ill effects, he claimed.
Hahaha, it’s just a prank, bro…
My son attends a boarding school near Lake Constance in Switzerland. I wouldn’t mind living there permanently, Europe is great.