Due to the presence of the American occupying power, the country conferences in the Chiemseehof, which were central to the emergence of the Second Republic in 1945, and the reconstruction of the Third Camp in the first ten years of the Second Republic, the economic and political importance of Salzburg in no way corresponded to its small total area compared to the rest of Austria Population. The image of Austria, often used by the Salzburg governors, as an ellipse with two focal points - Vienna and Salzburg - had, in addition to its local political coloring, a real political basis.