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The year 1989 was the last year of the West German economy as a separate and separable institution. From 1990 the positive and negative distortions generated by German reunification set in, and the West German economy began to reorient itself toward economic and political union with what had been East Germany. The economy turned gradually and ...
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
From the late 1950s, West Germany had one of the world's strongest economies. The East German economy also showed strong growth, but not as much as in West Germany, due to the bureaucratic system, emigration of working-age East Germans to West Germany, and materiel sent as reparations to the USSR. Unemployment hit a record low of 0.7–0.8% in ...
The historiography of Germany deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed and debated the history of Germany.It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of those events in museums, monuments, reenactments, pageants and historic sites, and the editing of historical documents.
For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the ...
An economic history of England 1870–1939 (Routledge, 2013) Cameron, Rondo. France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800–1914: Conquests of Peace and Seeds of War (1961), awide-ranging economic and business history; Caron, François. An economic history of modern France (2nd ed. Routledge, 2014) Clapham, John.
1 September - Fritz Kampers, German actor (born 1891) 10 October - Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (born 1894) 1 November - Heinrich Tessenow, German architect (born 1876) 2 November - Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (born 1886) 8 November — Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist (born
Nevertheless, it makes sense to let the early industrialization in the sense of immediate prehistory of the Industrial Revolution in Germany begin approximately with the year 1815. Since the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the lifting of the Continental Blockade , trade barriers fell on the one hand, and on the other, the German economy was now ...