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Chapter 9
Oil Shocks and Stagnation
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Two Germanies (1961-1989)
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Construction of the Oil Refinery in Schwedt (1962)
Principles of the “Social Market Economy” (December 19, 1962)
Producing Irons in Sörnewitz (1964)
Leipzig Spring Trade Fair (1965)
Walter Ulbricht on the “New Economic System” of the GDR (December 16, 1965)
Economics Minister Karl Schiller on “Concerted Action” (January 9, 1967)
Decommissioned Coal Mine (1967)
The West German Law to Promote Economic Stability and Growth (June 8, 1967)
The GDR’s Failure to “Overtake without Catching Up” (July 30, 1970)
Robotron Computer (1970)
An East German Manager Explains the Advantages of a Kombinat (June 24, 1972)
The First Oil Crisis (October 28, 1973)
A West German Journalist Ponders the Implications of the Oil Shock (November 15, 1973)
Der Spiegel: Four Covers about the Oil Crisis (November 1973)
The West German “Ban on Driving Motor Vehicles” (November 20, 1973)
Automobile-Free Sunday (December 1973)
The Federal Government’s Counter-Cyclical Spending Program (December 20, 1974)
Demonstration by the Confederation of German Trade Unions (April 1, 1975)
“Model Germany” (1976)
U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at the G7 Conference in London (May 7–8, 1977)
The European Council in Bremen (July 6–7, 1978)
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Outlines His Program for Combating the Second Energy Crisis (July 2, 1979)
Shortages Complicate Christmas Shopping in East Germany (December 21, 1980)
Oil from the North Sea (1982)
Solar Automobile (1982)
Solar Energy Plant on the North Sea Island of Pellworm (1983)
West German Steel Crisis (1983)
Unemployment Rates among Different Population Groups (1983)
“State Initiative for Future-Oriented Technologies” (1984)
Small-Scale Wind Turbines by MBB (1986)
Chancellor Helmut Kohl Celebrates the Success of the Social Market Economy (October 25, 1989)
GDR Economics Minister Günter Mittag Explains the Failure of the Planned Economy (1991)
The West German Steel Crisis of the 1980s (c. 2002)
East-West Reconciliation
Environment and Protest