This publication is the first to examine in detail the content and background of the economic emergency program enacted by Helmut Kohl's first cabinet on the basis of previously unconsidered sources. In the process, it becomes clear what influence the special situation between the so-called "1982 Wende" and the new elections the following year had on the decisions made at that time.

Hendrik Böttcher, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn.