Germany between division and unity (1945-1990)

Abstract

The issue of the division of Germany after World War II is one of the important topics because of its impact on the European economy in general and on the German economy in particular. After the end of World War II in 1945, the victory of the Allies and the collapse of Germany, the victors divided Germany into four sections until an agreement was reached to divide it into two parts: a democratic East Germany belonging to the Soviet Union and a federal West Germany belonging to America, France and England during the Potsdam Conference and the Yalta Conference in 1945. The most important aspect of the research is Germany’s transition from the weakest economic country to the greatest economic country by achieving the economic miracle in 1955.

West Germany became the most prosperous economy in Europe. West Germany was built, thanks to the policy of its advisors Konrad Adenauer (1949-1963), Ludwig Ehrhart (1963-1965) and Helmut Kohl (1982-1990), who built close relations with France, the United States and Israel to the benefit of Germany until West Germany joined the European Common Market. East Germany fell into stagnation as its economy was organized to meet the needs of the Soviet Union until the reunification of Germany. The research touched on the dividing line between the two Germanys (the Berlin Wall) between the years (1961-1989), which marked its end with the beginning of German unification on 3 October 1990.