This article investigates the history of the German–Greek relationship in the context of European integration and demonstrates that West Germany and German–Greek business networks played a crucial role in the shaping of Greece's post-war growth model. The article challenges the assumption that the relationship between the two countries is overshadowed by the past. In contrast, it shows that post-war German–Greek relations were forged around European integration with an eye to the future and that it was the two countries' early rapprochement and the mutual accommodation of their respective aims that laid the foundations of their asymmetrical interdependence. In doing so, the article argues that it was the success of Greece's European strategy, rather than its failure, that lies at the heart of its recurring balance-of-payments problems: a lingering trade deficit with Germany, the country's major trading partner, proved to be, as I will show, the price for growth and modernization.

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欧洲一体化中的增长模型和核心-边缘相互作用：历史视角下的德国-希腊特殊关系

本文研究了欧洲一体化背景下德国-希腊关系的历史，并表明西德和德国-希腊商业网络在希腊战后增长模式的塑造中发挥了关键作用。这篇文章挑战了两国关系因过去而黯然失色的假设。相比之下，它表明战后的德希关系是围绕着欧洲一体化建立的，着眼于未来，正是两国早期的和解以及对各自目标的相互适应，奠定了两国不对称相互依存的基础。 . 在这样做的过程中，文章认为希腊的欧洲战略的成功而不是失败，才是其反复出现的国际收支问题的核心：