时任联合信贷银行总裁的普罗·法莫很早就进军波兰，继而收购了德国的抵押联合银行——它拥有市场领导者奥地利信贷银行。

Alessandro Profumo, then head of UniCredit, was early into Poland and later bought Germany's HypoVereinsbank, which owned bank Austria Creditanstalt, the market leader.

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奥地利和德国曾向外国信贷者大举借债，这样银行的倒闭波及全球，很大地加剧了萧条。

Austria and Germany had borrowed heavily from foreign creditors and the bank's failure rippled around the world, vastly intensifying the Depression.

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普林斯顿大学历史经济学家哈罗德·詹姆斯说，雷曼兄弟的破产跟1931年奥地利联合信贷银行的破产情况相似。

Harold James, an economic historian at Princeton University, says Lehman's failure was analogous to the collapse of Creditanstalt, a big Austrian bank, in 1931.

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