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A note on Allied currency reform in West Germany (1948) as presented by ‘Welt im Film’

Pages 299-309 | Published online: 15 Sep 2006

NOTES

  • 1950 . Germany 1947–1949: the story in documents 492 – 492 . Washington D.C.
  • See Abelshauser Werner Wirtschaft in Westdeutschland 1945–1948 Stuttgart 1975 for further information about the currency reform in the Western Zones of Germany and its effects see: Gerold Ambrosius (1977), Die Durchsetzung der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft in Westdeutschland 1945–1949 (Suttgart), pp. 148–181; Jack Bennett (1950), ‘The German Currency Reform’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 167 (January); Colm-Dodge-Goldsmith-Plan, original American version in: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 111. Band, 2. Heft, German translation in: Hans Möller (Hrsg.) (1961), Zur Vorgeschichte der Deutschen Mark. Die Währungsreformpläne 1945–1948 (Basel), pp. 214–251; Howard P. Jones, ‘Currency, Banking, Domestic and Foreign Debt’, in: Edward H. Litchfield (Ed.), (1953), Governing Postwar Germany (Ithaca, N.Y.); Gustav Stolper (1948), German Realities (New York) (German translation: (1949) Die deutsche Wirklichkeit. Ein Beitrag zum künftigen Frieden Europas (Hamburg); Karl-Heinz Willenborg, (1979) Das neue Geld. Die Währungsreform und ihre wirtschaftlichen Folgen, in: Jürgen Weber, Entscheidungsjahr 1948 (München), pp. 175–193. The Principal documentary sources are to be found in the files of the United States National Archives Record Group 260: Office of Military Government for Germany of the United States (OMGUS), Information Services Division (ISD). Microfiches of all important files are held at the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, and at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich. See also Heinrich Bodensieck, ‘Welt im Film: Origins and Message’ and Stephan Dolezel, ‘Welt im Film 1945 and the Re-education of Occupied Germany’ in K.R.M. Short & Stephan Dolezel (1988), Hitler's Fall: the newsreel witness (Beckenham, Croom Helm).
  • September 1948 . Opinion Surveys Branch, Information Services Division, OMGUS, Report No. 139: Chief Cares and Worries since the Currency Reform September , 2 – 2 . 22
  • See Opinion Surveys Branch, Information Services Division, Report No. 133: Reactions Toward Currency Reform in the U.S. Zone of Germany 1948 August 1 1 10
  • See RG 260, 8/189-1/5, Historical Division OMGH, The Currency Reform as the Public sees it 2 2 n.d.
  • November 1948 . Opinion Surveys Branch, Information Service Division, OMGUS, Report No. 146: The Problem of Cleanliness in Present-day Germany November , 9 – 9 . 13
  • See RG 260, 8/189-1/5, Historical Division OMGH, The Currency Reform as the Public sees it 1 1 n.d. and p. 2
  • RG 260, 8/189-1/5, Historical Division OMGH, The Currency Reform as the Public sees it 6 – 6 .
  • See Welt im Film 1945–1950 Microfiche Catalogue No. 1 Imperial War Museum London n.d.
  • See headline of the OMGUS-made newspaper Die Neue Zeitung July 28 “Money balances supply and demand”.

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