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Economic Miracle: A Decade-long Way from the Defeated in the War to the World Leaders"
There were two parallel running efforts implemented in Germany and Japan after the end of the World War II: The first was restoration and the second was conversion of economy aimed to eliminate the threat of new conflicts in the future. Germany found itself amid crisis: Many of its cities and factories were ruined and much of the able-bodied male population was killed. Germany was to pay many billions in reparations and the Nazi ideology, which used to be the country's national ideology, had collapsed. The winning statepowers were facing a difficult task: To establish a new democratic system, to create a demilitarized economy, to change the system of government, public mentality and their behavior patterns. First of all it was required to transit from the centralized and rigidly controlled system of social order to free competition and promotion of private entrepreneurship...
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