“Germany’s Postwar Miracle” will be presented by Dr. Dale Matcheck, Professor and Department Chair of Economics at Northwood University.

In this lecture, we offer a tale of two countries. After the devastation of World War II, how did West Germany rise to become one of the leading economies of the post war world, while E. Germany stagnated? The development of the West led to a flood immigrants from the East, a trend that only was partially halted by the construction of the Berlin Wall. What caused the “Wirtschaftswunder” – the economic miracle in West Germany, and did U.S. policy help or hinder its development?

The event begins at 6 p.m. in the Plaster Building in Room 120/121 on Northwood University’s campus.