Abstract:

After World War II the Allies imposed on Germany a forced" re-education". It represented a political experiment unique in modern history, trying to comprehensively reconstruct another people s national character. The policy of "re-education" was first put forward by Britain.It sought to influence and thus change the German people's way of thinking and their life style with the Western democratic tradition. The practice of "re-education" in Germany was approximately divided into three phases from the beginning of occupation to the end of occupation system, covering the entire cultural and educational system. It stimulated the German people to reflect their historical cultural tradition and to cultivate their democratic ideas. It led Gennan people' s thoughts to a fundamental transition and laid a solid intellectual foundation on which Germany could be remolded from an old system to a new system.

Key words: re-education, Germany, the Western zones