Antitrust auf deutsch

The influence of the American allies on the creation of the Act against Restraints of Competition is the history of a far-reaching conflict between different ideologies. The American antitrust collided with the Continental European cartel law tradition in Germany after 1945. The allied antitrust policy of the USA was linked closely to the question of German sovereignty and the German economic system. At the same time there was a connection between the German and the European cartel policies, since both of them had been created as a common concept of concurrent decision-makers. Using recently declassified documents from the National Archives in Koblenz, London and Washington D.C., Lisa Murach-Brand examines how various people and powers influenced the creation of the German Act against the Restraints of Competition.