The 1997 issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, under which the Netherlands received approximately $1.1 billion in American aid between 1948 and 1952. Dutch industrial recovery — particularly in Rotterdam's port infrastructure, devastated by both wartime bombing and deliberate German demolition during the retreat — was among the more visible successes the program could point to in Western Europe.
The 1997 issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, under which the Netherlands received approximately $1.1 billion in American aid between 1948 and 1952. Dutch industrial recovery — particularly in Rotterdam's port infrastructure, devastated by both wartime bombing and deliberate German demolition during the retreat — was among the more visible successes the program could point to in Western Europe.