Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article examines how German pastors played a critical role in the rehabilitation of German prisoners of war (POWs) interned in Britain. The author focuses on a particular group of German Lutherans from 1940 to 1950 as a microcosm of postwar rebuilding, arguing that pastors, through POWs, sought to create an alternative vision of German reconstruction. This vision stemmed from a desire to reform German Protestantism after collaboration with the Third Reich. The author traces the individual contributions of pastors and their negotiations with British governmental and religious allies to centralise these pastors as early re-education experimenters, indicative of the multiplicity of visions of German reconstruction.
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