Recovery began with the mid-1948 currency reform in Western Germany, and was sped up by the liberalisation of European economic policy that the Marshall Plan (1948–1951) both directly and indirectly caused.
A recuperación xeral europea comezou a mediados de 1948 coa reforma monetaria de Alemaña Occidental, axudada pola liberación económica causada de forma directa e indirecta polo Plan Marshall entre 1948 e 1951.