Wilton Park is a unique phenomenon: part of the Britih Government
but academically independent; well-known among policy makers, but
with a low public profile; created to help foster democracy in
post-war Germany, but now with global reach; a vehicle for
international dialogue, never one for British propaganda.
Why did the British Government create such an institution in 1946?
What impact did it have? How did it evolve from a training centre
for German prisoners of war to today's international policy
forum?
In Victory, Magnanimity, in Peace, Goodwill tells the story for the
first time. It describes how it was Winston Churchill who proposed
Wilton Park's post-war role. But its founding father was a German:
Heinz Koeppler, a historian who had fled from Hitler to Magdalen
College, Oxford, and had worked in Britain's wartime Political
Intelligence Department. After the war, he fought as many battles
as during it, to resisit Government cuts and to maintain Wilton
Park's academic independence as a centre of frank, searching and
off-the-record debate. Koeppler's legacy is today's thriving
institution.
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