1st Edition
A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949 The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies
By David Phillips
Copyright 2024
168 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
168 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Edward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until December 1949. He thus experienced the implementation of policy in the Zone from the very beginnings of the occupation until the founding of the Federal Republic of German y in 1949. During the period 1945 to 1947 he wrote weekly letters home to his... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Education in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 3. Edward Aitken-Davies, 1899-1981 4. Edward Aitken-Davies’s Letters to his Mother, May 1945-December 1947 5. Postscript, 1948-1949 and After
Biography
David Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education, University of Oxford, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Throughout a long career in Oxford a principal focus of his research has been the role of the British in the reconstruction of education in the British Zone of occupied Germany. His most recent book on the subject is Educating the Germans: People and Policy in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 (2018).
