Restoring German-Japanese Relations after World War II

Abstract

After the disaster of World War II, two very different Germanies emerged from the ruins of the Third Reich: in the west, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) developed into a politically stable and economically prosperous capitalist democracy; in the east, the German Democratic Republic, or GDR for short, proved to be economically the most productive state in the Communist bloc and one of the Soviet Union’s most reliable allies.1