15 Facts About Morgenthau Plan

Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to eliminate Germany's ability to wage war following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries basic to military strength.

Morgenthau Plan exclusively showed excerpts that he knew would displeasure the President.

Morgenthau Plan later resigned for health reasons, though there were anecdotal reports that his resignation was brought about by "the Morgenthau business".

Fact that Morgenthau was able to present his plans in Quebec despite the great resistance within the US government is precisely due to this state of health in Hull.

Morgenthau Plan is quoted as saying to his staff that "I can't overemphasize how helpful Lord Cherwell was because he could advise how to handle Churchill".

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Morgenthau Plan was able to prove to his countrymen, in black and white, that the enemy planned the enslavement of Germany.

In occupied Germany Morgenthau Plan left a direct legacy through what in OMGUS commonly were called "Morgenthau Plan boys".

Morgenthau Plan had been able to wield considerable influence over Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067.

In October 1945 Harper and Brother published Morgenthau's book Germany is Our Problem, where Morgenthau described his plan and the rationale for it in greater detail.

Marshall Morgenthau Plan was extended to include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe.

Walter M Hudson describes JSC 1067 as less harsh than Morgenthau's plan: while core elements of the Morgenthau Plan were incorporated in JCS 1067, it was deliberately diluted, and permitted the military government to be more flexible than envisaged by the Morgenthau Plan.

German Federal Agency for Civic Education asserts that the Morgenthau Plan was never implemented and was only briefly supported by Roosevelt, and that JSC 1067, while treating Germany as a defeated enemy state instead of a liberated nation and aiming at the dismantling of German industries, left loopholes that allowed a military governor to later implement more lenient policies.

Benz states that Morgenthau had romantic agrarianist ideals which might mean that the intentions of his plan could have been beyond preventing conflicts.

German historian Rainer Gommel criticizes the common claim by historians, including Benz, that the Morgenthau Plan was never implemented, arguing that core elements of the plan, namely the proposals for deindustrialization, were adopted in August 1945 and became part of Allied policy.

Critics of the hypothesis, such as historian James C Van Hook, state that the Morgenthau Plan rejected reparations that were part of official Soviet demands, and Harry Dexter White's other economic initiatives at Bretton Woods were so in favor of postwar capitalism that it is difficult to see him as entirely a Soviet agent.