1st Edition
Images of the Marshall Plan in Europe Films, Photographs, Exhibits, Poster
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Studien Verlag, Austria
The Marshall Plan is considered the most successful foreign aid program in American history. It played a crucial role in helping to rebuild Western Europe after World War II, reintegrate West Germany into the West, maintain American interest in EuropeI1/2s future, contain communism, and launch American consumer democracy and improving the standard of living in Europe. It also finalized the... Read more
Section I: The United States and the Marshall Plan Section II: Media representations of the Marshall Plan in a comparative European context Section III: The Marshall Plan in Austria: myth, Moloch, and memory Section IV: The memory of the Marshall Plan.
Biography
Gunter Bischof is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.
Dieter Stiefel, is a professor for social and economic history at the University of Vienna; executive director of the Vienna Schumpeter Society and the Schumpeter Program Harvard/Austria.
