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The Morgenthau Plan was conceived by the USA as a way to ensure that Germany never raised aggressive war again. It split Germany into pieces and would never permit it to have an industrial society again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan
However the actual effect was to stiffen German resolve.
This cost thousands of lives.
Doubly unfortunate was that the author of the plan, Morgenthau, was an American Jew. The Nazis lied that the Jews were the cause of Germany's downfall, so to present evidence of a Hare Brained Scheme to destroy the country authored by a Jewish American was Gold Dust to Goebbels.
I honestly thought that the contents of the Morgethau plan was an exaggeration by Anti Semites to claim an undue influence in the conduct of the War against Germany by the Jews, but it truly was for real! I am sure that the Jews would not be behind the plan because it meant the war dragged on and millions were unnecessarily killed in the Halocaust. However Roosevelt must be condemned to the point where he loses his reputation for this monumental blunder.
What if the Morgenthau Plan was replaced by the following:
Conditional on the negotiations being with a non Nazi Led Regime, the US and UK would accept the cessation of hostilities from Germany and occupy the country with the purpose of returning it to its pre War borders and to a Democratic Government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan
However the actual effect was to stiffen German resolve.
General George Marshall complained to Morgenthau that German resistance had strengthened.[48] Hoping to get Morgenthau to relent on his plan for Germany, President Roosevelt's son-in-law Lt. Colonel John Boettiger who worked in the War Department explained to Morgenthau how the American troops that had had to fight for five weeks against fierce German resistance to capture the city of Aachen had complained to him that the Morgenthau Plan was "worth thirty divisions to the Germans." Morgenthau refused to relent.[49]
On December 11, OSS operative William Donovan sent Roosevelt a telegraph message from Bern, warning him of the consequences that the knowledge of the Morgenthau plan had had on German resistance; by showing them that the enemy planned the enslavement of Germany it had welded together ordinary Germans and the regime; the Germans continue to fight because they are convinced that defeat will bring nothing but oppression and exploitation.[50] The message was a translation of a recent article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
This cost thousands of lives.
Doubly unfortunate was that the author of the plan, Morgenthau, was an American Jew. The Nazis lied that the Jews were the cause of Germany's downfall, so to present evidence of a Hare Brained Scheme to destroy the country authored by a Jewish American was Gold Dust to Goebbels.
I honestly thought that the contents of the Morgethau plan was an exaggeration by Anti Semites to claim an undue influence in the conduct of the War against Germany by the Jews, but it truly was for real! I am sure that the Jews would not be behind the plan because it meant the war dragged on and millions were unnecessarily killed in the Halocaust. However Roosevelt must be condemned to the point where he loses his reputation for this monumental blunder.
What if the Morgenthau Plan was replaced by the following:
Conditional on the negotiations being with a non Nazi Led Regime, the US and UK would accept the cessation of hostilities from Germany and occupy the country with the purpose of returning it to its pre War borders and to a Democratic Government.
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