Phoenix

After the World War II ,the Allies imposed on Germany a forced democratization reform, including Denazification, Political Democratization, Economic Democratization, and Ideological Re-education. This was an unprecedented, well-planned, systematical and boldest attempt to modify a fully developed western culture with the western democratism and virtue. In view of the establishments of the occupation system and the FRD and her history in the past half-century, the Western Allies' democratic reformation had achieved spectacular success, in that the notion of democratism has penetrated into the German society and offered a political protection for its sound development. Moreover, it urged the German people to have a deep introspection of her tradition, abolished the deposited negative elements in the German society, and enhanced the notion of freedom and democratism which has gone into hiding in the history and culture of Germany. At the same time, the German people played an active role during the democratic reformation. As a result, a basic social transformation took place in Germany, and the FRG established an accurate view of history and World War II.The large-scale and longtime democratic reformation of the western zones in Germany, which enjoyed a long-lasting influence, has attracted close attention of many governments as well as different people in today's world. It is an extremely important issue, not only in the German and world history, but also in the 2oth century international relations and politics. Undoubtedly, a deep and close study of this issue has great theoretic and practical influence on the study of the German and world history, even on the stable development of the world peace.The paper is composed of six chapters except for the preface and conclusion:Chapter One gives a detailed discussion to the total plot and formation of America, Britain and France's German policies during the war, which directly decided the Allies' concrete measures of democratic reformation in their respective occupation zone..Chapter Two mainly discusses the issue of Denazification. Considering the German society and people had been badly poisoned by the theory and practice of the Nazism, the first step to reform the German society was to fundamentally abolish the influence of the Nazism, which required eliminating all Nazis from the real life, and getting rid of the obstacles in the way of building a western-style democracy. For this purpose, the Allies made a detailed plan for Denazification, whose execution roughly consisted of three stages, i. e., the arrest and try of the Nazi war criminals, the forced discharge and examination of the Nazis, and the Denzification in the general public.Chapter Three discusses the economic democratization. The purposes of the Allies' economic democratization of the western occupation zone was to abolish the economic base of the German threat, economically disarm Germany, and clear away Germany's military power and its excessive economic power. At the beginning, the economic democratization was closely associated with Germany's war reparation .Decentralization was to terminate German monopoly organizations, dissipate their economic power, and create more active and initiative companies, inorder to strengthen competition. The Marshal plan was to break the closed Nazi economy and merge it with the world market, which was realized by the Shuman Plan when the German Threat was basically erased. In order to reconstruct Germany's economy, the Allies even made some attempt in socialization and workers' participation in decision-making, which made great contribution to the realization and development of co-determination.Chapter Four is about the political reformation, which was to totally reform Germany's political system, rebuild her political life on the base of democracy, and provide a institutional protection for a sound social development. Firstly, the autonomous regional governments were established, by which the Germans could develop a consciousness of democrac...