Economic Reconstruction Union

Economic Reconstruction Union
Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung
LeaderAlfred Loritz
Founded1945
Dissolvedc. 1955
Preceded byEconomic Party (unofficial)
IdeologyRight-wing populism
Federalism
Political positionRight-wing to far-right

The Economic Reconstruction Union (German: Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung or WAV) was a German political party that was active immediately in Allied-occupied Germany after the Second World War. Although usually translated into English as the Economic Reconstruction Union[1][2][3] it is also sometimes known as the Union for Economic Reconstruction,[4][5] the Economic Reconstruction Association,[6][7] or the Economic Reconstruction Party.[8]

  1. ^ Gilad Margalit, Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II, Indiana University Press, 2010, p. XI
  2. ^ Frank Biess, Mark Roseman, Hanna Schissler, Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity: Essays on Modern German History, Berghahn Books, 2007, p. 227
  3. ^ David F. Patton, Out of the East: From PDS to Left Party in Unified Germany, SUNY Press, 2011, p. 17
  4. ^ Alfred Grosser, Germany in Our Time, Penguin Books, 1971, p. 252
  5. ^ Noel D. Cary, The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer, Harvard University Press, 1998, p. 288
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference guilt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Jose Raymund Canoy, The Discreet Charm of the Police State: The Landpolizei and the Transformation of Bavaria, 1945-1965, BRILL, 2007, p. 65
  8. ^ Mark S. Milosch, Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969, Berghahn Books, 2006, p. xiv