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Nationalizations in the Austrian, French and British economies in the second half of the 1940s are the subject of this paper. The author analyses how they were conducted, what sectors and enterprises were affected and what was their context (earlier and later nationalizations), particularly political. The main conclusion of the text stresses that time frame and solutions adopted during nationalizations were primarily caused by the local verities and evolutions of governing systems. The author also stresses the need to separate nationalization from other forms of public sector expansions.