1: Disaster and Revival
Introduced by RICHARD Hiscocks
Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex
From the destruction of the Second World War the Federal Republic of Germany has emerged as a great industrial nation and the world's second largest exporter. Britain has been continually told that the Germans work harder and plan better to produce economic success, but the British attitude to Germany and the Germans remains ambivalent. This first programme looks at West Germany's reconstruction through the eyes of some of those responsible for it and examines the German repudiation of the past.
Produced by Chris Cuthbertson
First broadcast on March 20