Wirtschaftswunder
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The Wirtschaftswunder, also known as the Miracle on the Rhine, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II. The expression was first us
The Volkswagen Beetle was an icon of post-war West German reconstruction. The pictured example is a one-off version manufactured to celebrate the production of a million cars of the type.
German refugees from the east in Berlin in 1945
War damage in a German city in Saxony in 1945
Mooserboden reservoir, Kaprun, 1968
Morgenthau Plan
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The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and civilian industry. This included the removal or destruction of all military and civilia
Wirtschaftswunder
…Mark as legal tender, halting rampant inflation. This act to strengthen the West German economy had been explicitly forbidden during the two years when JCS 1067 was in effect. JCS 1067 had directed the U.S. forces of occupation in Germany to "take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany…
Roosevelt and Morgenthau, who have been described as "two of a kind"
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec, 9 September 1944
Morgenthau's 1945 book Germany is Our Problem