The Political Re-Education of Germany and her Allies

After World War II

Nicholas Pronay, Keith Wilson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000008388
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: History

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of political re-education from its origins to 1951. 'Political re-education' was the British alternative to the ideas put forward by the USA and the USSR in the common search for a post-war policy which would permanently prevent the resurgence of Germany for a third time as a hostile military power. It was adopted as Allied policy and remains one of the boldest and most imaginative policies in history for securing lasting peace. This book discusses the question of the place of this policy in the preservation of peace and the integration of Germany and Japan into the community of their historical enemies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: ‘To Stamp Out the Whole Tradition…’
• Chapter 1. Great War Prologue
• Chapter 2. The Planning of ‘Re-education’ during the Second World War
• Chapter 3. The Concept and Practice of ‘Re-education’ in Germany 1945–50
• Chapter 4. The Education Branch of the Military Government of Germany and the Schools
• Chapter 5. The Press in the British Zone of Germany
• Chapter 6. In Retrospect: Britain’s Policy of ‘Re-education’
• Chapter 7. Welt im Film: Anglo-American Newsreel Policy
• Chapter 8. American Film Policy in the Re-education of Germany after 1945
• Chapter 9. The Re-education of Imperial Japan
• Chapter 10. From ‘Re-education’ to the Selling of the Marshall Plan in Italy
• Select Bibliography
• Index