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Was wäre wenn… die Rote Armee im Sommer 1945 Ostdeutschland wieder verlassen hätte?Eine Antwort aus der Steiermark

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Ein Teil des heute noch vorhandenen ökonomischen Rückstandes von Ostdeutschland im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland kan direkt auf die Nachkriegswirren des 2. Weltkrieges zurückgeführt werden. Die Ankunft der Roten Armee in Zentral- und Osteuropa führte sowohl zu großen Fluchtbewegungen als auch zu Demontagen durch die Rote Armee und zu Plünderunge durch ihre Soldaten. Wie jüngste Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, sind die ökonomischen Folgen der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit noch heute nachweisbar. Die in diesem Beitrag vorgestellte Studie legt somit nahe, dass ostdeutsche Regionen selbst dann dauerhaft ökonomisch geschwächt worden wären, wenn sich die Rote Armee im Sommer 1945 gänzlich aus diese Gebieten zurückgezogen hätte und es nie zu einer Teilung Deutschlands gekommen wäre.

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  • Christian Ochsner, 2017. "Was wäre wenn… die Rote Armee im Sommer 1945 Ostdeutschland wieder verlassen hätte?Eine Antwort aus der Steiermark," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 24(05), pages 15-23, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifodre:v:24:y:2017:i:05:p:15-23
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    Keywords

    Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz; Kriegsfolgen; Soldaten; Flüchtlinge; Zeitgeschichte; Ostdeutschland; Westdeutsche Bundesländer;
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    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • N44 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: 1913-

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