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To: rxh4n1
I am highly skeptical of the claim that the Americans allowed the starvation of hundreds of thousands of German soldiers. There were too many soldiers who would have complained about the deliberate starvation. At the time, there was a vigorous conservative press, such as the McCormick and Hearst newspaper chains, that would have jumped on any attempt by the Truman Administration to kill German soldiers with starvation and exposure. There were those who proposed the entire destruction of German industry, as in the Morgenthau Plan. However, there were numerous influential people in America, such as George Marshall and Herbert Hoover, who were opposed to the Morgenthau Plan, and it was never implemented, although the Soviets and to a lesser extent the French did take numerous factories. The United States initiated the Marshall Plan to restore West Germany to economic health.
30 posted on 05/13/2025 8:49:39 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

“the Soviets and to a lesser extent the French did take numerous factories.”

That’s an understatement. By some of the eyewitness accounts, the Soviets stripped Germany of everything that wasn’t nailed down, and much that was. They even stripped the plumbing out of houses.


31 posted on 05/13/2025 9:35:37 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Wallace T.

There are tons of documented proof and images...


34 posted on 05/13/2025 9:46:27 AM PDT by Openurmind
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