Less than a year before the end of World War II, then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar 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 Morgenthau’s so -called Plan was revealed to the press in September 1944, he was rented for the first time. After all, it would make Germany not to start any other World War in Europe.
Morgenthau certainly envisioned a Carthaginian peace, designed to ensure a permanently deindustrialized, unarmed, and pastoral Germany.
Postwar Germany would have seemed to resemble the old pre-commission frontier, adding that the first-century advertising historian Tacit spoke in his Germania.
The plan would have ensured that within six months of Germany’s surrender, all of its industrial plants and equipment were to be dismantled.
The Ruhr, the fame of the European Shopping Center, to be permanently castrated, hungry for its energy, its raw fabrics and its infrastructure.
After the war, the plan called for a virtual general disarmament of Germany. The armed forces, previously ceded, so that they would 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.
The long -term security of Germany would have the strength and goodwill of the victorious United States and its allies.
When the dying Nazi Party got wind of the plan, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a field day. He screamed to Germans that they were all doomed to oblivion if they lost the war, even growing opponents of the Nazi Party.
Even many Americans were aghast at the plan.
Gen. George Marshall, the Army chief of staff, warned that its mere mention had galvanized German troops to fight to the end, increasing American casualties as they closed in on the German homeland.
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, witness of their lunar landscape ruined through large attacks and space fights of the plan.
There is a tragic footnote to the aborted horrors of the Morgenthau plan. Today, Germany is everything Morgenthau ever dreamed of.
Its green delusions have shut down far too many of its nuclear, coal, and gas electrical generation plants.
The erratic sun and the force of the “sustainable energy” wind that the force prices are 4 times higher than in the United States.
The former European giants formerly dominant, Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes, now bleed from consumers and profits. The mandates of green and electric automobiles of their own government make certain that they will non -competitive worldwide.
The German economy actually shrank in 2023. And the diminished Ruhr can no longer save the German economy from its own utopian politicians.
The German army nearly disarmed and cut thousands of recruits.
German industries do not produce enough ammunition, tanks, ships, and aircraft to equip even its diminished army, navy, and air force.
A few hundred kilometers from Germany in Ukraine, more than one million Ukrainians and Russians have died, wounded or lacking, in the highest 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 one million immigrants have illegally entered the country, the vast majority of them in the Middle East. Many of them are hostile to European values and culture, as shown through recent terrorist murders. A 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 is now abundant.
After World War II, Truman’s management rejected the perception of a 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, reduced power and fuel food, and battled millions of illegal aliens and porous edges.
The Germans are content that they don’t have an army to communicate about that can only their borders insecure, without the US-led NATO.
Eighty years ago, former German conquerors refused to destroy the country defeated as too hard. But now Germany is voluntarily pastoral, dramator, deindustrializing and destroying itself.
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