 Complete the following phrase:  After receiving her doctorate in 1953 Renate Meyer had been ambitious to embark on a political career, but she found that there was no demand in the job-market for women keen to work in politics on the basis of a higher degree in history. Despite the rapid economic growth of the 1950s in West Germany and the slaughter of war half a generation earlier, unemployment was still relatively high because of the scale of the ethnic cleansing of the 1940s from the eastern third of Germany. These territories had been transferred, formally in 1945, to Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Further competition for jobs came from the millions more 