Wirtschaftswunder
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300px|thumb|The Volkswagen Beetle was an icon of post-war West German reconstruction. The pictured example is a one-off version manufactured to celebrate the production of a million cars of the type.
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- West Germany
- Reparations
- Marshall Plan
- Austria
- See also
- Notes
- External links
300px|thumb|The Volkswagen Beetle was an icon of post-war West German reconstruction. The pictured example is a one-off version manufactured to celebrate the production of a million cars of the type.
The Wirtschaftswunder (, "economic miracle"), also known as the Miracle on the Rhine, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II. The expression was first used to refer to this phenomenon by The Times in 1950.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wirtschaftswunder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.