Germany’s receiving society had to be rebuilt from ruins, unlike France’s intact one

Evidence

Third, the postwar scenarios varied substantially. While the effects of the Algerian War with France remained largely within the political realm, causing the breakdown of the Fourth Republic and returning Charles de Gaulle to power, Germany lay in ruins in 1945. Due to wartime destruction and the number of other relocated, displaced, or repatriated persons and refugees (eight to ten million by the end of the war), an integrated ‘receiving society’ barely existed; locals and immigrants had to rebuild one together. Furthermore, Germany was not a sovereign country. Even after the foundation of the two German states in 1949, Allied occupation and territorial division strongly influenced the way the integration of the expellees was carried out. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 47

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Germany financed postwar reconstruction mainly through money creation, not household savings; French reliance on German reparations forced interest-driven deficits and inflation. — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 546

Broader Connections

• Germany financed postwar reconstruction mainly through money creation, not household savings #expands (0.75)
• French reliance on German reparations forced interest-driven deficits and inflation. #qualifies (0.75) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 546