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he stamp was issued in 1955. By that time, Germany’s economy was recovering fast. Straight after the war, the country had been in ruins. By 1950, people had started talking about an ‘economic miracle’. Various forces had brought this about. America’s Marshall Aid plan had pumped money into the German economy (and into other European economies, including our own). The

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