British university officers in Germany after the war

There is little observational evidence of the effects of interaction between different cultures in international links between higher education institutions. The newly released reports of the attempts by British Officials to reconstruct German universities after 1945 provide a unique record of the problematic areas of tradition and of management in a situation of broad cultural difference aggravated by political stress. The evidence has interesting implications for an evaluation of European institutions and for current experiences in other countries undergoing rapid change.