Government and Relief in Occupied Areas (GARIOA) was the program under which the U.S. after World War II provided emergency aid to the occupied nations, Japan, Germany, Austria. This article is becoming very long. ...

The aid received was predominantly in the form of food to aleviate starvation in the occupied areas.

The aid received by Germany through GARIOA was, just as the later Marshall plan aid, charged to the Germans. By 1953 West Germanys debt was over $3.3 billion. It was however decided in 1953 that West Germany only had to repay $1.1 billion. The amount was repaid by 1971. Map of Cold-War era Europe showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. ...

See also

• Wirtschaftswunder
• Marshall plan
• Morgenthau plan

The term Wirtschaftswunder (English: economic miracle) designates the upturn experienced in the West German and Austrian economies after the Second World War. ... Map of Cold-War era Europe showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. ... The Morgenthau Plan showing the planned partitioning of Germany into a North State, a South State, and an International zone. ...

External links

• "Marshall Plan 1947-1997 A German View" by Susan Stern
• U.S. Occupation Assistance: Iraq, Germany and Japan Compared CRS Report for Congress, Order Code RL33331
• Várdy, Steven Béla and Tooly, T. Hunt: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe Available as MS Word for Windows file (3.4 MB) Section: by Richard Dominic Wiggers, The United States and the Refusal to Feed German Civilians after World War II pp. 274 - 288
• The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq, by Ray Salvatore Jennings May 2003, Peaceworks No. 49, United States Institute of Peace
• America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq By: James Dobbins, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane, Seth G. Jones, Rollie Lal, Andrew Rathmell, Rachel M. Swanger, Anga Timilsina (RAND corporation)
• Oral History Interview with John W. Snyder Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman Administration, 1946-53.
• "Germany and the Political Economy of the Marshall Plan, 1947-52: A Re-Revisionist View" (with Albrecht Ritschl), in: Barry Eichengreen (ed.), Europe's Post-War Recovery, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 199-245.