WI: U.S Government Enslaves German Population After WW2?

Remember the German public was propagandized about the Morgenthau Plan

True, and if the Western Allies had actually persisted in that plan, that too would have been an immense propaganda gift to Stalin, who would boast about how he was generously allowing an industrial revival in the Soviet zone...
 

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And you think an American gulag system would be better? I'm explaining how such a program would be horrific both for the occupiers as well as the occupied and how a hypocritical regime (the Soviets) would use it for their own gain. I'm not defending Soviet policy.
Nope, just saying it was pretty damn bad IOTL. Like the de-industrialization program of OTL it would be utterly unsustainable.
 
This is edging onto ASB territory, as mentioned above, and cannot possibly end well for anyone except possibly the Soviet Union, and I'm not even sure of that.
 
Nope, just saying it was pretty damn bad IOTL. Like the de-industrialization program of OTL it would be utterly unsustainable.
Exactly. This would carve the economic heart out of Europe. There will be no EU (originally created to end the possibility of war between France and Germany), no economic miracle, an increasingly radicalized people, and an economic burden to keep watch on them. Not an ideal solution and definitely one formed in the most irrational states of mind.
 

CalBear

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This is edging onto ASB territory, as mentioned above, and cannot possibly end well for anyone except possibly the Soviet Union, and I'm not even sure of that.
Edging?

It is ASB, except even an ASB would have a hard time with it.

Wow.

Just wow.
 
I know about that, trust me. I also know of the Soviet love for propaganda (Soviets commit genocide in Afghanistan while chastising South Africans over Apartheid and American actions in Vietnam).

And why exactly are we diverting to Soviet acts when, if America did this, we'd be seeing similar acts? My father was stationed in West Germany in the Sixties and he told me about the "fun" servicemen had with German locals like casually tossing a German teen off a bridge (which the kid luckily survived).

Things are not going to end well if America creates a gulag system.
And you think an American gulag system would be better? I'm explaining how such a program would be horrific both for the occupiers as well as the occupied and how a hypocritical regime (the Soviets) would use it for their own gain. I'm not defending Soviet policy.
Does it count that Eisenhower broke the Geneva Convention buy feeding POW'S and refugees less then they should be? As for putting people in camps the US does has experience.
 

Jack Brisco

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Just can't see it happening. When it gets down to it, it just isn't us to enslave all the people in our occupation zone. That's why we fought our own Civil War eighty years prior. I can see keeping SS and upper-level Nazi Party members in prison camps, but the average German - no. Just not us.
 

Perkeo

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It was never an option for the WAllies to fight Nazism with Nazism - you Americans, British and French should be proud of that.
 
How Americans ever will enslave millions of Germans? This is just economically and logistically impossible and imparctical. What about they who can't work (small children, old people, them whom have disabilities and illnesses)? And how long this would last? On some point this would cause quickly serious moral problems. And Germans just not say: "Ok. I am slave. No problem.". There would be much of resistance.

Disabled Germans were mostly killed by the Nazis, or at best left to die to hunger... So this particular problem would not exist (much).
 
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