Don't forget it wasn't a gift everything was paid back financially and politicly .
Nonsense. The German economy was in recovery before the Marshall plan money arrived – and if extra money makes a country rich, why has foreign aid been such a disaster in Africa? Keep looking though.https://twitter.com/OrzelBialy2020/status/1154270601277792257 …
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Germany was set on the road to recovery by an Austrian economist. Got to be some irony there.
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Hitler’s miracle was paid for by the bankers behind the federal reserve, it’s no coincidence that as Germany prospered in the run up ww2 America was going through the Great Depression!
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Yes it wasn’t necessary funding, it was deregulation and reorganisation that kickstarted the FDR. The British Army effectively got Volkswagen up and running
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Any idea how much aid Africa has hoovered up of the last 40-50 years? My hunch is that it's a considerable amount.
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They could create a 900 million population surplus in the last 30 years.
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I keep on hearing about the demographic dividend. I live in South Africa and I dont see it.
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Between 1985-2015 more than 3 million africans arrived in south africa as immigrants.
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Because Foreign aid went to thecwrong pockets in South Africa...
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I don't think it was in recovery. 0+0 is still 0. The Yanks had a vested interest in "investing" there, after that - sure, Germany did what Germany always does. South Korea is a similar example.
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Mmmm that beautiful West German government, plenty of ex Nazis around to make the streets run properly
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Actually it rather is an east Germany government run by SED /Stasi members!
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Its through blank heads like you
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No certain business that did not get bombed during the war did very well post war also. Germany did not recover till really the 1970s. Many buildings were still bombed out shells till then. Plus Germany had severe labor shortage post war - between casualties of war, slave...
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What about UK, why did the mighty economy fall from grace
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The UK was in severe debt to America in the wake of WW2 because of the Lend Lease Act.
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