Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Face. Economically, West Germany has made great progress. The desperate food shortages of a year ago are gone; there is little hunger anywhere. Before the currency reform, West German production lagged at 51% of 1936; in nine months it has spurted up to 80%, surpassing the target set by ERP. Coal production is setting new postwar records...
Despite these achievements, only the most unreasoning optimist could ignore the other face of West Germany's economy. West Germany still imports more than twice as much as it exports...
Most Länder governments are nearly broke. One million among West Germany's 45,000,000 are unemployed. Typically, one-third of the new unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
...pointed out that nationalism could become the vehicle of Communism in a synthesis which he called "national Bolshevism." It was Radek who explained to the Comintern executive committee that the nationalism of the German "masses" did not necessarily prevent them from turning to Communism. A great many forces in West Germany are conspiring to bring the ghost of Karl Radek and national Bolshevism back to life...
...Communists have captured the great propaganda citadel of "a united Germany"-while the West has been frantically building what is called even officially "a state fragment." West Germans don't want Communism, but they do want a united Germany. The Communists say they can deliver that. Some German conservatives listen to them. From the Soviet zone, these weeks, comes a steady stream of political marriage brokers promising, like Christian Democrat Leader Otto Nuschke, "to bring the Russian zone as a splendid dowry in marriage with West Germany...