You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
"Indispensable to any student of the New Order in Europe between 1939 and 1945." -- English Historical Review
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Tangerding: Clemens Maria Tangerding wurde mit dieser Studie an der Universität Dresden und an der Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris promoviert und arbeitet als freier Historiker und Journalist in Berlin.
Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little atten...