The Long Economic Shadow of World War II in Europe
The Economic History Podcast
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What Are the Consequences of World War II?
Most western european countries had a smaller casualty than in world war one, despite the fact that worldworth killed so many people globally. And these population losses were more than offset by continued natural population growth and also postward displacement of people who ended up in western europe. So this is why the physic foundations for normal economic activity and continued growth and rapid recovery were there in practically all western europeAn countries. It was really geo political and international factors that limited recovery in the late 19 forties,. at least in western germany.
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