On 11 November 1947, in connection with the Marshall Plan, the German daily newspaper Die Welt gives details of the aid granted by the United States to Europe.

‘Europe convalescent home — He’s getting better too quickly …’ On 9 November 1948, in connection with the aid granted by the United States (Dr Uncle Sam) for European economic reconstruction (the Marshall Plan), German cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang illustrates the fears of France (the young Marianne) and the United Kingdom (John Bull) at an overly prompt economic recovery of Germany (Michel). On the right, the Netherlands (a little Meisje) observes the scene.

On 9 April 1949, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes an article by Paul Hoffmann, the American Director of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). He gives an account the first year of US economic aid to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan.

On 10 November 1949, German weekly Der Spiegel analyses the scope of the Marshall Plan for economic and financial aid to Europe against the backdrop of growing rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.

‘Europa and the 1949 bull.' In 1949, taking inspiration from the myth of the abduction of the nymph Europa by Zeus in the form of a bull, cartoonist Mirko Szewczuk illustrates in his own inimitable fashion the importance of the economic aid supplied by the United States to Europe under the Marshall Plan.

In 1948, the city of West Berlin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings at the end of the Second World War, receives financial aid granted to the Federal Republic of Germany under the Marshall Plan.

From 1950, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) uses the funds granted to it by the United States under the Marshall Plan for economic and financial aid to Europe in order to finance, in particular, the construction of 1 309 houses for German refugees from the Soviet occupation zone.

The Land of Schleswig-Holstein, whose capital Kiel was 81 % destroyed during the Second World War, benefits from the financial aid of the Marshall Plan. The photo shows US aid being used to fund the building of housing for refugees.

In 1953, Franz Blücher, West German Minister for the Marshall Plan, assesses his Government's use of the material aid supplied by the United States in order to revive the economy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1947, two years after the end of hostilities in Europe, the city centre of Stuttgart is still in ruins. By 1955, however, the town’s reconstruction has been completed, thanks, in large part, to the economic and financial aid given by the United States to Europe under the Marshall Plan.

Advanced automation in the Alfons Müller textiles factories in Wipperfürth and the commercial success of his products illustrate the post-war economic miracle in the Federal Republic of Germany.