AHC: The Morgenthau Plan is carried out

BigBlueBox

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I think that it would have occurred if the Western Allies met the Soviets at the Curzon Line instead of the Elbe. The Allies would then want a strong Poland, not a strong Germany, so they would have to give Poland everything up to the Oder-Neisse Line like OTL. But after they do that, they would be faced with massive German resentment, and no way to appease it. The French and Dutch would want their own slice of Germany too. Since it is the Western Allies and not the Soviets giving German land away, the Allies would feel that since Poland got land the other countries should get some German land too. At this point, the Germans would be extremely angry at the Western Allies. There would probably be a Werwolf resistance movement. The Allies would realize that they could never make the Germans happy, so the only thing they could do is break apart Germany and de-industrialize it so that it could never pose a threat again.

Edit: You realize that the OTL peace was already worse than Versailles right?
 
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How can you make it so after World War II, the Allies decide to inflict a punishment even worse than the Treaty of Versailles on Germany as encapsulated in the Morgenthau Plan?

For those who are not sure of what the Morgenthau Plan entailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

There were very compelling reasons for the allies not adopting and not enforcing the Morgenthau Plan.

The moral reasons were that the economic consequences of the Morgenthau Plan would have caused the death of tens of millions of Germans, as Churchill stated. And if he stated death, it was because the logic of the Morgenthau Plan was not to enable tens millions of Germans to emigrate and live somewhere else than the geographic area that had then been Germany. The western allies wanted to do nation building in Germany and uproot the warmonger imperialist tendencies in Germany to make Germany a liberal democratic society, not to suppress Germany.

The economic reasons by themselves were that the US and Britain wanted a ravaged continental Europe to be rebuilt and to reach again a level of prosperity that were beneficial both to continental Europeans, the US, Britain and the rest of the world. Keeping Germany into an economic ruins field would make much more difficult to reach this goal.

The strategic reasons were that as early as 1943, the US and Britain knew that the war was won, that the USSR would dominate eastern and central Europe, and that the next « match » would be the rivalry between the West and the communist East. And they wanted to have the possibility to bring their majority share of Germany into their team to go through the coming cold war.

This being said, you have in negative the consequences of your what if.
 
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