Great article..!
Here is his book:
Here is a review of the book:
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.
They say had the Morgenthau Plan been followed, 20 million people would have died..!