德国联邦银行成立于二战后，反映出联盟对脱离德国央行的过去传统坚定不移。 在过去那种传统中，政治谄媚和与金融机构成立的密切关系破坏货币稳定，导致通货膨胀和货币毁灭。
It absorbed much of the political inheritance of Germany’s Bundesbank, whose establishment after World War II reflected Allied insistence on breaking with German central banking’s past traditions, in which political subservience and close ties to the financial establishment undermined monetary stability, leading to inflation and the destruction of the currency.