Prosperity Through Competition

Key to Abbreviations

KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS

BDL	— Bank Deutscher Länder (Central Bank)
CDU	— Christlich-demokratische Union (Christian Democrats)
CSU	— Christlich-soziale Union (Christian Socialists)
DGB	— Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (German Council of Trade Unions)
DM	— Deutschmark (after 1948)
ECA	— Economic Co-operation Administration
EPU	— European Payments Union
GARIOA	— Government Appropriations for Relief in Occupied Areas
GATT	— General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
LTP	— Long Term Plan
MSA	— Mutual Security Administration
NATO	— North Atlantic Treaty Organization
OEEC	— Organization for European Economic Co-operation
RM	— Reichsmark (before 1948)
SPD	— Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democrats)

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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

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