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Chapter 3
Economy and Politics in the Western Zones and the Federal Republic
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Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945-1961)
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Speech by General Lucius D. Clay at the First Meeting of the Minister Presidents in Stuttgart (October 17, 1945)
The Reparations Settlement and Germany’s Peacetime Economy: Statement by the U.S. State Department (Press Release of December 12, 1945)
Black-Market Activity in Berlin (1945)
Swapping on the Black Market (1946)
U.S. Military Governor Joseph McNarney’s Statement to the Allied Control Council (July 20, 1946)
Agreement between the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States on the Economic Fusion of their Respective Zones (December 2, 1946)
The Western Allies on the Desired Level of Industry in their Zones of Occupation (August 28, 1947)
Revised Plan for Level of Industry in the Anglo-American Zones (August 29, 1947)
The Destroyed and Demolished Krupp Works in Essen (1947)
Destroyed Factory Workshop at the Krupp Works in Essen (1947)
The Volkswagen Factory in the City of Wolfsburg: Scrap Yard for Damaged VW-Beetles (1947)
Reconstruction of a Building near the Frauenkirche in Munich (1947/48)
The “People’s Car” on New Paths (January 29, 1948)
Conference of Military Governors and State Leaders of the “Bizone” in Frankfurt am Main (January 7-8, 1948)
Reconstruction Aid for Europe: The Marshall Plan (1948)
“A Border-free Open Road for the Marshall Plan” (c. 1948)
Black Market in the American Occupation Zone (1948)
Rebuilding the Economy in the American and British Occupation Zones (1948)
U.S. Report on the Agreement to Unite the British and American Occupation Zones (1948)
Extracts from the British Military Government Law No. 61: First Law for Monetary Reform [Currency Law] (June 20, 1948)
Currency Reform (June 20, 1948)
Berlin Airlift: Children Hope for Chocolates (July 1948)
Report on the Berlin Airlift (July 30, 1948)
Ludwig Erhard on the Social Market Economy (August 22, 1948)
City Councilor Ernst Reuter Appeals to the “People of the World” (September 9, 1948)
“People of the World, Look at this City!” – Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter's Speech on the Berlin Blockade (September 9, 1948)
Berlin Blockade: To Save Energy, Meals were Cooked in a “Cooking Chest” (1948)
Surviving Winter Shortages of Electricity and Heat (January 5, 1949)
“Made in Blockaded Berlin” (1949)
A Look Back at the Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1961)
The Headquarters of the American Forces in Germany in the Former I.G. Farben Building in Frankfurt am Main (1949)
The Economic Council (1949)
Reconditioning Plant in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel for Bricks Salvaged from the Ruins (1950)
The Right of Co-determination and the Right to Strike: Letter from Konrad Adenauer to Hans Böckler, Chairman of the Confederation of German Trade Unions, and Böckler’s Response (1950)
The Hattenheim Talks (January 1950)
Walter Pahl, Summary of Key Aspects of the Law Governing Co-determination in the Coal and Steel Industry (1951)
Co-Determination Law [Mitbestimmungsgesetz] (May 21, 1951)
Works Constitution Act (October 11, 1952)
Excerpt from Ludwig Vaubel’s Account of His Experiences in the United States (1952)
Otto A. Friedrich, “The Social Imperative” (1958)
Denazification and War Crimes Trials under the Allies
Founding of Two States: The Federal Republic of Germany a...