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FDR and the Economic Miracle

FDR and the Economic Miracle. Week 17, February 17. Themes in this lecture:. 1. Adenauer’s Germany and constitution 2 . Integration into the W world 3 . Reparations for the Holocaust 4. population influx 5 . SPD 6 . Economic miracle 7 . Coming to terms with the past.

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FDR and the Economic Miracle

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  1. FDR and the Economic Miracle Week 17, February 17

  2. Themes in this lecture: 1. Adenauer’s Germany and constitution 2. Integration into the W world 3. Reparations for the Holocaust 4. population influx 5. SPD 6. Economic miracle 7. Coming to terms with the past

  3. Konrad Adenauer, 1876-1967

  4. “No experiments!”

  5. European Economic Community, 1958

  6. Reparations to Israel, 1956(train from Esslingen factory train)

  7. Return of the German POWs

  8. Emigration from Germany Migration to the US (380.000) Canada (235.000) Australia (80.000) UK (50.000) Uprooted expellees, many unemployed before the economic recovery started; Others eager for experiences abroad after the Nazi years

  9. Anticommunism

  10. Kurt Schumacher, 1895-1952

  11. Herbert Wehner, 1906-1990

  12. The Economic miracle The architect, Ludwig Erhard And the results: new prosperity and lifestyle

  13. The Song of the Economic Miracle (Aren’t We Wonderful? 1958) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGBVB3KBPn8

  14. Critics: Heinrich Böll, Siegfried Lenz, Group 47 Billiards at Half-Past Nine, 1959

  15. Coming to terms with the past Hans Globke director of the Federal Chancellery, 1953-1963

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