By Barry Eichengreen, Project Syndicate | October 24, 2025
Why did Germany, defeated in both World War I and WWII, recover so strongly after the latter, but not after the former? Two new books suggest that conventional accounts of the Wirtschaftswunder – West Germany’s miraculous economic ascent after WWII – get it wrong.
Europe’s leaders invoke 1940 to avoid confronting the realities of today’s war.
Local law enforcement describes early border warnings and the human cost of delayed attention.
Europe’s leaders invoke 1940 to avoid confronting the realities of today’s war.
