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The Marshall Plan, adjusted for inflation, spent about $120 billion to rebuild West Germany. According to Brown University, the US has spent over $100 billion reconstructing Iraq. Why were efforts to rebuild so much more successful in West Germany, which had many more people?

by /u/Capcombric in /r/AskHistorians

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