Vom Marshallplan zur EWG. Die Eingliederung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in die westliche welt.

The years from 1948 to 1958 were a watershed for Western Europe. They saw the establishment of a new political and economic order on which the stability and prosperity of the late twentieth century have been based. A critical factor in this development was the West Europeans' achievement in reintegrating western Germany into the Atlantic economy and releasing its economic power without unleashing its capacity for destruction. The conventional view is that this complex process was fairly smoothly engineered. Vom Marshallplan zur EWG. Die Eingliederung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in die westliche Welt, ed. Ludolf Herbst, Werner Buhrer and Hanno Sowade (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, …