What did actually happen to Germany in the years AFTER 1. Four Winds 1. 0. All barbaric acts aimed against the civilian population have to be condemned. LOSS of TERRITORY: About 4. German populated areas within the prewar borders of Germany were given to Poland, CSR, even the Soviet Union.
Austria). EXPULSION: 2. Germans were expelled from their homes, houses, farms in Eastern parts of Germany or areas in East Europe. MURDER and RAPE: During the process of expulsion, 3 million German civilians were killed in unforgettable atrocities. Around two million girls and women were raped. PRISONERS of WAR: Three million POW’s were killed, mostly by deliberate starvation, one million in the “Eisenhower annihilation camps” (www. Rheinwiesenlager. FORCED LABOR: Millions of German POW’s were subjected to forced labor in many countries including those of the Western Allies.
STARVATION: Deliberate starvation of the German population that had survived the bombing raids by a range of harsh and cruel measures of the Allied forces. Americans. 6,5 million German died from starvation and exhaustion from 1. Many scientists were deported or “invited” to work in the Allied countries. GOLD and ARTS: The German Gold reserves were stolen and transported to the US.
The wealth of German museums as well as private property was robbed. DE- INDUSTRIALIZATION: The German factories that had survived the bombing raids were dismantled (“DEMONTAGE”) and blown up until after 1. Roosevelt’s Catos. Peter Stuyvesant. Winter- in- Germany- 1. Today we can hardly imagine that 6.
Allies were in the process of dismembering Germany, tearing down its economy. Older Germans remember the postwar winter of 1. In his book The German. Question and the Origins of the Cold War (Milan 2.
Nicolas Lewkowicz notes that Germany was given the most comprehensive treatment ever. The question is how this treatment came to be. This did not stop (or maybe actually encouraged) Jewish exiles from dreaming about Germanys demise after the war.
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Tens. of thousands of Jewish exiles from Germany had found refuge in New York and even had their own newspaper Aufbau (German word for build- up). The most active and outspoken among them was Emil Cohn, better known under his German pen name Emil Ludwig. Ludwig advocated that Germany should be totally. Germany should go through a “probation” and should be “re- educated”. There were many similar.
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Cohn was not a mere commentator as he was summoned to testify before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of. Representatives on March 2. He proposed a partition of Germany and a long period of Allied control. In order to spread his radical. American public he published a book with the title “How To Treat The Germans” (New York: Willard, 1.
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The idea of collective punishment based on collective guilt was. Jews. During a protest rally at Boston Garden on May 2 1. Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. Berle came from a family of Zionists. His father, Adolf Augustus Berle Sr., was the author of the book The World Significance Of A. Jewish State (New York: M. Despite his seemingly rather lowly post Berle was a confidant of Roosevelt and was part of.
Brain Trust, a presidential advisory group stemming from the 1. Jews. In April 1. American journalist Kingsbury Smith revealed.
Germany under the title Washington’s Plan for Postwar Germany in the American Mercury 5. April 1. 94. 3). This plan. Cohn and Berle. 1. The decentralization of Germany as a political and economic unit.
The reduction of Germany’s heavy industry by the removal of machinery, and then placing the remaining industries under Allied. The establishment of an Allied commission for the investigation of war crimes and the trial of Germans who were responsible for. Jews” in Europe as well as other war crimes. Moreover, the plan was highly criticized in the media. American public. A public opinion- poll of June 1.
Germany (. In a poll of September 1. American public responded that Germany was inherently warlike (5. Japan was inherently warlike).
In order to achieve this the Society for the Prevention of World War III was. December 1. 94. 3. At a first glance non- Jews like the German pacifist Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster and the American fiction writer Rex.
Stout were in charge, but the advisory committee was stacked with Jews like William Shirer, Paul Winkler, Louis Nizer and Clifton Fadiman. The Society was the vanguard of advocates for. Germany’s dismemberment.
In 1. 94. 3 Paul Winkler published a book called “The German Conspiracy: Secret Germany Behind the Mask”. New York: Charles Scribner’s sons, 1. In 1. 94. 4 Louis Nizer published his book “What To Do With Germany” (Chicago: Ziff- Davis) in which he advocated. Germany’s sovereignty as a nation should be forfeited.
The society was not very successful among the public. Indeed, its hatred for the. Germans as a nation caused indignation among some writers and editors, who accused the society of bad history, bad logic, and inverted. Common Sense, June 1. This time it was the Treasury Department of. Roosevelt’s long- time confidant Henry Morgenthau Jr. Before Morgenthau submitted his plan during the conference he visited the front in France in August 1.
He was. horrified to find out that in London and among the American generals plans were afoot to administer a conquered Germany not as a madhouse. Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries, Houghton Mifflin. Churchill ultimately agreed to adopt the plan in exchange for a large loan which Great- Britain desperately needed at this stage of the. The plan was again leaked to the press, causing indignation and criticism towards the Roosevelt administration.
Even from within the. Henry L. Stimson criticized the . A quarter of Germany’s territory was. Germans. The rest was to be politically divided into several pieces. Allied nations. Germans were deprived of any form of self- governance and political. Economically, the remaining German territory was to be stripped of all its industry and the German people were only to be. Germans were not allowed to emigrate and were liable to be conscripted for forced labor abroad.
Access by relief. Germany was to become the largest concentration camp on. Joe Mc. Carthy, and later shown to be a communist spy), that the plan was executed after. Morgenthau’s term of office, and that the Allied occupation in fact ended in the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1. The Allied occupation regime until 1. Morgenthau Plan by.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1. Germany into four zones, restrictive food distribution which caused starvation. German industries. Millions of Germans were submitted to forced labor abroad and millions of Germans were on the. Herbert Hoover’s report .
The American public did not believe in the inherent evil of the Germans, nor did it desire a harsh peace. They. did not hate the Germans, nor did they believe in collective guilt/punishment. It was the desire of small minority of Jewish. President Roosevelt.
The Morgenthau Plan did not come out of the blue; its outline was in place. September 1. 94. 4. It stemmed from the same group of Jewish activists and policy makers who had advocated its basic principles for. Morgenthau himself was deeply committed to his plan and advocated its execution after his leave from office. The. Morgenthau Plan became the official Allied occupation policy of Germany until Cold War reality forced its abandonment. Still, it should be.
German chancellors were forced to sign a .