In the past 50 years, bureaucrats helped develop the industrial policies that turned Japan from post-war collapse to the second-biggest economy in the world.

在过去的50年间，这些官僚们大力发展工业政策，使日本在战后废墟上建成了世界第二大经济国家。

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Allianz, for example, which settled most of its policies under Germany's own sweeping post-war restitution programme, set up a team to examine 1.4m individual paper files on policies issued between 1920 and 1945 in order to try to trace any that remain unpaid.

ECONOMIST: Holocaust reparations

Other sections explain how post-war Germany was saved by the strict policies of the Bundesbank.

ECONOMIST: The lessons of German history haunt the single currency

If current pay practices are compared with those of the recent past, then the option explosion may be the most beneficial change in corporate policies in the post-war period.

ECONOMIST: No soft option