American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955

Abstract

1. Introduction Jeffry Diefendorf and Hermann Josef Rupieper 2. Ripping holes in the Iron Curtain: the council of foreign relations and Germany, 1945-1950 Michael Wala 3. US policy on a West German constitution Erich J. Hahn 4. American policy toward German unification, 19490-1955 Hermann Josef Rupieper 5. Marshall Plan and currency reform Christopher Buchheim 6. American policy toward Germany and the integration of Europe, 1945-1955 Gunther Mai 7. From Morgenthau Plan to Schuman Plan: America and the organization of Europe John Gillingham 8. Return to normality: the United States and the Ruhr industry, 1945-1955 Werner Buhrer 9. West German agriculture and the European recovery program, 1948-1952 Ulrich Kluge 10. Science and technology in Postwar Germany John Gimbel 11. American decentralization policy in the Ruhr coal industry Albert Diegmann 12. Technology transfer and the emergence of the West German petrochemical industry, 1945-1955 Raymond G. Stokes 13. A free university of Berlin: a German experiment in higher education, 1948-1961 James F. Trent 14. Higgs and the unions in West Germany: a study of HICOG's labor policy toward Deutscher Gewerksschaftsbund (DGB), 1949-1952 Michael Fichter 15. US military occupation, grass roots democracy, and local German government Rebecca Boehling 16. German democratization as conservative restabilization: the impact of American policy Diethelm Prowe 17. America and the rebuilding of urban Germany Jeffry Diefendorf 18. US policy toward German veterans, 1945-1950 James M. Diehl 19. Grand illusions: the US, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the European defense community, 1950-1954 David C. Large 20. The Federal Republic of Germany as a 'battlefield' in American Nuclear Strategy, 1953-1955 21. The presence of American troops in Germany and German American relations, 1949-1956 Bruno Thoss 22. John J. McCloy and the Landsberg cases Thomas Allen Schwartz 23. Sources in German archives on the history of American policy toward Germany, 1945-1955 Josef Henke 24. US High Commissioner for Germany and related records: sources for he history of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1949-1955 in the US National Archives and Records Administration Robert Wolfe.