The Federal Republic of Germany, FRG, was formed when the Allies of America, France and Britain took control of the West following the catastrophic events of World War Two, ending in 1945. As a result of the war, Germany was in complete ruins; physically, socially and economically; the land devastation together with the amount of men killed in the war caused complete incomprehension for those remaining. Furthermore, as a result of the ensuing reduced workforce, people were required to work longer hours in order to even maintain Germany's very low industrial output; people therefore had to completely overcome these overwhelming events of the past, known as ‘Vergangenheitsbewaltigung', so as to reconstruct for the future. However, unlike any preceding event, Germany was seen to make an extremely rapid recovery, to such a degree that as little as ten years after the war there was already talk of Germany's ‘Wirtschaftswunder', the miracle demonstrating the total transformation of her......
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