![]() ![]() The story begins as Mr Wheatley, an English teacher at the Augusta-Victoria College for Girls, discovers that something valuable is missing from a locked box on his bookshelf. ![]() Six Minutes to Midnight tells the story, based on fact, of a British finishing school for the daughters and goddaughters of the Nazi elite, in the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. It is co-written by Goddard, Celyn Jones and Izzard and produced by Mad As Birds Films. It became the inspiration that led him to create his first screenplay, Six Minutes to Midnight (2020), for a film in which he plays the lead role. Not surprisingly, this was the only English school badge Izzard had ever seen that incorporated a swastika in its design. ![]() When the British comedian Eddie Izzard visited the local museum in the town in which he was brought up, Bexhill, in the county of East Sussex, his attention was immediately drawn to a hand-embroidered azure, gules and white Augusta-Victoria College Bexhill-on-Sea school uniform crest, with a royal lion rampant, sporting golden crown and claws-and the British and Nazi flags side-by-side. As well as the good dinner, there was a chance to sing some rousing Nazi songs.- Alan Starr, Secret Bexhill-on-Sea It was the Führer’s birthday, and the school celebrated in style. Dinner was much better than usual, and the headmistress ran up a large swastika flag. On 20 April 1939, the girls had a special treat in store. ![]()
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