Education is Reeducation: Peter Suhrkamp's Programmatic Work in Cooperation with the Military Government in Germany.

Peter Suhrkamp, who in 1950 separated from his former publishing partner Gottfried Bermann Fischer and founded his own company, was considered an apt collaborator for the British Allies in their reeducation efforts. Still a partner in the S. Fischer Verlag, he had stayed in Germany during the Nazi regime and protected his authors against official attacks, while Bermann Fischer published the “un-German” émigré writers in exile. Imprisoned on charges of treason in 1944, Suhrkamp was not released from concentration camp until February 1945. The first German publisher to receive a license from the British military government, Suhrkamp developed a pedagogical publishing program for postwar Germany. In 1948, he was invited by the British to prepare German POWs in English camps for their return to Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]