When: 
Monday, April 3, 2017 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where: 
104 Kirby Hall of Civil Rights
Presenter: 
Prof. Dr. Guenter Bischof, U of New Orleans
Price: 
Free

We are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, the European Recovery Program that General George C. Marshall announced to the world at Harvard University’s Commencement on June 5th, 1947 (http://marshallfoundation.org/marshall/the-marshall-plan/). Between 1948 and 1952, the United States assisted the rebulding of Western Europe with $12 billion US dollars (=$120 billion in current dollar value). Without the extraordinary vision, wisdom, and stewardship of America’s leaders and the generosity of the American people, Western Europe would have remained in a state of devastating political and economic instability and human misery and vulnerable to more violence and great hardship.

Guenter Bischof, Marshall Plan Professor of History and Director of the Center Austria (http://www.uno.edu/cola/history/Faculty/bischof.aspx) at the University of New Orleans will speak about the legacy of the Marshall Plan with a particular focus on the rebuilding of Austria and its remarkable postwar recovery. For additional information on this topic please consult Prof. Bischof’s article “Rebuilding Austria” at www.austrianinformation.org/march-april-2005/2007/2/14/915243.html.

Sponsored by: 
Max Kade Center for German Studies, Depts of Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Government and Law, and the International Affairs Program

Contact information

Name: 
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Phone: 
610-330-5255
Email: 
lambfafm@lafayette.edu