Great Britain And Germany

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Discusses changes in the two countries during the post-war years of 1945-1950. Rebuilding. Division of Germany into West and East. Economic and financial assistance. The Cold War. Aim of Britain to restore the status quo of central Europe. New Labour government in Britain. Nationalization and the welfare state.

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"BRITAIN AND GERMANY- 1945- 1950

To the victor goes the spoils, says the ancient cliche. The fact that this was said at the treaty of Versailles which ended World War I, and which spawned Hitler and the Nazi Party, made the victorious Allies determined not to make the same political and economic mistake twice in a lifetime. West Germany was now under the strict control and foresight of Konrad Adenauer, while Britain (no longer Great) had shunted aside its wartime leader, Winston Churchill, in favor of a Labour government that gave new meaning to the word ineptitude . What happened? And how, and why? Perhaps a hint of what was in store for the next several years was a graffito (which) appeared on a Berlin wall on March, 1945: Enjoy the war- the peace is going to be terrible! (Bark 1989 5).

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