Less than a year before the end of World War II, then, USA. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau developed a nightmare plan to punish post -war Germany.
After the Franco-Prussian War series of 1870-1871, World War I and World War II, as well as the failure of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, the allies of World War II sought that would never come back there . Be a competitive Germany difficult enough to invade its neighbors.
When the so-called Morgenthau plan was revealed to the press in September 1944, it was rented for the first time. After all, it would make Germany unable to start any other world war in Europe.
Morgenthau imagined a Cartaginian peace, designed to ensure a pastoralized pastoral, disarmed and permanently unarmed.
Post -war Germany would have seemed to the old border prior to the commission, and added that the advertising historian of the Tacitus first spoke in his Germania.
The plan would have ensured that within six months of Germany’s surrender, all of its factories and commercial apparatus would have to be dismantled.
The Ruhr, the remarkable European commercial means of force, to be permanently castrated, hungry for its energy, its raw fabrics and its infrastructure.
After the war, the plan demanded a general virtual disarmament of Germany. Its previously assigned armed forces will become non -existent.
Massive cuts have also promised German borders. Several countries, such as the Soviet Union, Poland, and France, were to get slices from the former Third Reich.
Future German security would hinge only on the power and goodwill of the victorious United States and its allies.
When the dying Nazi party received the Wind from the Plan, Adolf Hitler Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, had a day on the ground. He shouted at the Germans that everyone was convicted of oblivion if they lost the war, even developing matches at the Nazi party war.
Even many Americans were aghast at the plan.
General George Marshall, the leader of the army staff, warned that his undeniable mention had galvanized German troops to fight until the end, expanding to US patients while they were near the German place of Birtray
Ex-President Herbert Hoover blasted the plan as inhumane. He feared mass starvation of the German people if they were reduced to a premodern, rural peasantry.
But once the victorious allies occupied a devastated Germany, witnessed its moonscape ruined by massive bombing and house-to-house fighting, and discovered that their “ally” Russia’s Josef Stalin was ruthless and hellbent on turning all of Europe communist, the Harry Truman administration backed off the plan.
There is a tragic note of the aborted horrors of the Morgenthau Plan. Currently, Germany is all Morgenthau once dreamed.
His green illusions have closed too many of their nuclear, coal and fuel force plants.
Erratic solar and wind “sustainable energy” means that power costs are four times higher than on average in the United States.
The former European giants previously dominant, Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes, now bleed from consumers and profits. The mandates of the green and electric cars of their own government make sure they will not be competitive throughout the world.
The German economy shrunk in 2023. The reduction of Ruhr can no longer save the German economy from its own utopian politicians.
The German army almost disarmed and short thousands of recruits.
The German industries produced sufficient ammunition, tanks, ships and airplanes to equip their reduction of the army, the Navy and the Air Force.
A few hundred kilometers from Germany in Ukraine, more than one million Ukrainians and Russians have died, wounded or lacking, in the European war since Stalingrad’s horrors.
However, the old German Dinamo country in the era beyond postwar periods no longer has work, ammunition and effective to Ukraine, particularly opposite to an ascending Russian invader.
More than 1 million immigrants have entered the country illegally, the vast majority of them from the Middle East. Many of them are hostile to European values and culture, as recent terrorist killings have shown. One-fifth of the population was not born in Germany.
The shrinking German people are growing angry, divided, and depressed. Their 1.4% fertility rate is one of the lowest in the Western world.
A tragic irony now abounds.
After World War II, Truman’s management rejected the perception of pastoral, deindustrialized and insecure Germany as a ruthless prescription of poverty, hunger and depopulation.
But now, the other German people voted for their own update edition of the Morgenthau plan: when they have voluntarily reduced factory hours, they cut food for energy and fuel food and fought with millions of illegal foreigners and porous borders.
The Germans are formed that they do not have an army to speak, which can simply their unconscious borders, without NATO directed by the United States.
Eighty years ago, Germany’s former conquerors rejected wrecking the defeated nation as too harsh. But now Germany is willfully pastoralizing, disarming, deindustrializing—and destroying—itself.
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