The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence of American Postwar Policy

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This book traces the role of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury to President Roosevelt, in the planning for the postwar world, with close attention to the discussions leading up to the Second Quebec Conference where Winston Churchill's acceptance of the plan was obtained. It details the unspeakable consequences of the policies based on the plan, and their contribution to the postwar collapse of the European economy. Damning evidence shows that the Allies intentionally brought starvation and disease to large civilian populations.

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In the Aftermath of War"The plan was designed to completely destroy the German economy, enslave millions of her citizens, and exterminate as many as 20 million people": John Dietrich, who served six years in the Defense Intelligence Agency, takes a hard, revisionist look at American policy toward Germany after WWII in The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy. Charting its origins, development and brief implementation, the author argues that the secretary of the treasury's plan for the demilitarization of Germany "thoroughly reflected" Roosevelt's opinions on postwar strategy (and that the president may have bribed Churchill to sign off on it); that the Soviet Union was the plan's sole beneficiary; and that the plan had far greater effects than anyone involved cared to admit.
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John Dietrich holds a Masters Degree in International Relations and is an expert on postwar conditions in Europe. Upon retiring from the US Army, he served in the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1985 until 1991; he then became a US Immigration Inspector. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Hardcover: 198 pages
Publisher: Algora Publishing (April 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1892941910
ISBN-13: 978-1892941916
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I had heard of the Morgenthau Plan, but had ...

ByDesi Erasmuson October 6, 2014

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I had heard of the Morgenthau Plan, but had read elsewhere that it was shelved. This book argues that it was indeed shelved, but only after a concerted, if thankfully brief, effort to implement it was narrowly thwarted when it was realized that German economic power was essential for pursuing a containment strategy towards the USSR and its new colonial system emerging in Eastern Europe.
The reputation of the top policy makers who initially approved the plan (with some enthusiasm apparently) shrinks as their gullibility and indifference to the human impact of their scheme emerges from the documents available for examination. Much remains to surface, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to emerge.

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A monstrous genocide against innocent Germans. You'll never hear about this on the lying History Channe.

ByRichard L. Ramseyon September 7, 2017

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A shameful chapter in America's history that the Gov't doesn't want you to know.

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A must-buy for all WW2 historical readers

ByMachinery's Handbookon January 30, 2015

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An accurate narrative of how Stalinist "agents of influence" bamboozled the Roosevelt administration into the most shameful policy of the 20th century. Lengthened the war by up to 2 years, cost millions their lives, and all to feed Stalin's megalomania. A cautionary tale for today's times.

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Five Stars

ByD. Riddleon August 13, 2014

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YOU NEVER WANT TO LOSE A WAR! AMERICANS NEED TO READ THIS BOOK.

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Very interesting and revealing

ByBlackyon June 25, 2014

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It is a pity this book is not translated into German language. But this were political incorrect in Europa? Seems to be.

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Revealing the truth about Franklin Delano Roosevelt

ByMarten Ganteliuson June 25, 2014

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Start reading American Betrayal by Diana West - thereafter The Morgenthau Plan. Then read both books a second time like I did. And I am a Swede!

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An important subject - but hold your nose while you read this book

ByF.P.Barbierion December 4, 2013

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This is a book of considerable interest, written for an odious cause and deliberately manipulative. The reason why I call its cause odious and its attitude deliberately manipulative will be seen in a single fact: it speaks - with deliberation and in the full knowledge of what it is saying - of the "holocaust" of German war prisoners and civilians between 1945 and 1947. The notion that the nation as a whole might be less than completely innocent and white as the driven snow, and that the visible animus of people like Eisenhower and Roosevelt might be anything other than vicious prejudice, viciously manipulated by Soviet infiltrators, is not considered. To Mr. Dietrich everything that Germany did up till 1945 is justifiable and defendable.
Having said that, there is no doubt that he has points to make. The Morgenthau Plan was monstrous on its face and from the beginning. It was conceived under the strong influence of Soviet agent Harry Dexter White, and it aimed to rip out the industrial heart of Europe - which Germany, for all its fault, was and remains - and condemn the country and everything that depended on it to a Third World existence. And for two years, this attitude dominated American attitudes to Germany, and, inevitably, to Europe; along with the further, dreadful crime of forcing the feeble pound, the valuta of an exhausted nation, to be floated far before it was ready (in 1946), an American policy which nearly starved and bankrupted Britain and certainly set Britain's recovery back by at least five years. It took a non-Treasury man, Marshall, to realize that American policies favoured Soviet Russia and chaos in equal doses, and to force the USA back to sanity and constructive behaviour, but not until three dreadful years of drift and impoverishment and increasing Communist influence had passed.

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This Should Be Required Reading for All Who Think They Know Something of the History Of Post War Europe.

ByDr. R. Brandonon August 26, 2014

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This book, published in America in 2002, is really quite shocking and seems to have received little notice in this country. My interest was sparked by a recent radio programme by Michael Portillo entitled, ‘Things We Forgot to Remember’ in which he spoke about the presence in the American administration of F. D. R. Roosevelt of a Russian agent who played a key part in drafting post-war Allied occupation policy for Germany – the Morgenthau Plan. Most readers will be familiar with the much vaunted and very successful Marshall Plan for the re-building of Europe after WWII, but may not be aware that the much more malign and disastrous Morgenthau Plan was being operated by America and Britain in many key areas of activity until at least 1949 and in some areas of activity until as late as 1951. The Morgenthau Plan, largely formulated by Soviet agent Harry Dexter White and carrying the name of his boss, the Secretary of the US Treasury Henry Morgenthau, proposed the de-industrialisation of Germany back to an agricultural economy and a regime of collective punishment for the entire German population. It was realised from the beginning that the huge population of Germany could not be sustained without the ability to export industrial goods to purchase food and that widespread starvation would, and under American, French and British jurisdiction certainly did, follow. Machinery was ripped out and shipped to the neighbours of Germany much of it to be consigned to scrap, mines were closed and employment reduced. Of course, the Morgenthau Plan, by its objective of making life intolerable for the German population played right into the hands of the Soviets by increasing the appeal of Communism as a possible road to salvation. This startling book also goes on to describe occupation currency disasters, the re-classification of POWs in order to avoid the strictures of the Geneva Conventions, the movement and utilisation of slave labour in the Allied areas of occupation and other crimes which escaped prosecution as we were the victors. This is a meticulously researched and referenced book and a salutary read that flies in the face of received (and currently taught) wisdom about the behaviour of the Occupying Forces in Germany between 1945 and 1951. An excellent and very lucid book.