Iron Cross Roads

Publication

Publication of memoir by Joachim Liebschner, Iron Cross Roads. Many will know Joachim Liebschner as the author of two distinguished books on Froebel – A Child’s Work: Freedom and Guidance in Froebel’s Educational Theory and Practice, and Foundations of Progressive Education.
His new book, Iron Cross Roads, is a gripping memoir of his life in pre-war Germany, his involvement in the Hitler Youth, service in the German armed forces, award of the Iron Cross while still a teenager, experiences as a prisoner of war of the Americans and then the British, life in postwar Germany, meeting and marrying his English wife, training as a schoolteacher, discovering Froebel, and becoming the foremost Froebel scholar of his generation.

Nearly 100 invited guests attended a lunchtime event organised by the trustees of the National Froebel Foundation on January 2007 at Froebel College London to celebrate the publication of Iron Cross Roads.

Joachim Liebschner with Raleigh Trevelyan, author of The Fortress

Listening to Joachim Liebschner's address

Joachim Liebschner addressing the company

Joachim Liebschner with Franciska Bayliss, Chair of the NFF and of the IFS

Joachim Liebschner with trustees of the NFF