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“I see the significance of the Marshall Plan in the fact that probably for the first time in history a victorious country held out its hand so that the vanquished might rise again.
— Konrad Adenauer
Chancellor of West Germany
Oral History Interview with Konrad Adenauer (10 June 1964), Harry S. Truman Library
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