| Institution: | Brian M. Puaca is an assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. This essay is part of a larger project that examines the democratization of the West German educational system in the two decades after 1945. He would like to thank Konrad H. Jarausch, Adam Seipp, Michael Meng, and Laura Micheletti Puaca for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this essay. He would also like to acknowledge the generous support of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies and the German Historical Institute. |
