The Rise of Western Germany: 1945-1972
Aidan Crawley, "The Rise of Western Germany: 1945-1972"
English | ASIN: B012OIENYO | 2015 | EPUB, MOBI | 302 pages | 1 MB
English | ASIN: B012OIENYO | 2015 | EPUB, MOBI | 302 pages | 1 MB
In the autumn of 1945 Germany was a shattered country.
Dismembered between four vengeful occupying powers; seven million displaced persons roaming its countryside; its cities in ruins; its roads, railways and canals destroyed; its leaders jailed, dead, or disappeared: it seemed inconceivable that even the part of the country which remained free of the Russians could ever rise again.
By 1972 Western Germany was one of the richest and most powerful countries of the world, host to humanity in the grandiose ritual of the Munich Olympics.
The story of how Germany clawed its way back from the ashes of defeat to achieve its present prosperity is one of the epics of the twentieth century and one which every Briton would do well to study.
Aidan Crawley was in at the beginning when he was marched across Germany early in 1945 from Stalag Luft 3 in Silesia to eventual release near Lubeck.