Welcome to The Institute of Education’s on-line resource for the history of education in post-war Germany supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Our home page shows, left to right:
Arabella Kurdi and German PoW driver with Volkswagen, 1947
Mimi Hatton at Bad Zwischenahn School, 1946
Front cover of British Families Education Service Gazette, 1946
Bomb damage in Hamburg, 1947
Young Germans, English and Dutch, on a Harvest Camp, 1955, and
Children at Bad Oeynhausen school play "shop" to help with socialisation and arithmetic, 1950.