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Learning Democracy Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965

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 und.

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