e gross national product of the reunited Germany was measured at DM 3,021,800m.
World War II destroyed much of Germany and left the population in disarray, but the rebuilding process was made easier by the Marshall Plan. Germany at the time was divided between the two alliances. There were two German states after the war because there were two ideological blocs, and each German state would serve as the anchor of its bloc in many ways, possessing in each case the most powerful armed forces other than those of the bloc's superpower. The division was real but not as hars
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