Wilton Park is an executive agency of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office[1]. It is a non-profit-making organisation holding discussions on global security and prosperity.
Wilton Park began on 12 January 1946 as part of an initiative inspired by Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1944 called for Britain to help establish a democracy in Germany after the second world war.[2] It takes its name from Wilton Park Estate, near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, which was used as an interrogation centre during the war. Since 1951 it has been based at Wiston House in Sussex, the Wilton Park Estate remaining in other Government use, currently as the Defence School of Languages[3].
Between January 1946 and June 1948 roughly 4,500 Germans were made to attend re-education classes there.[4]