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Being German does not preclude you from being ignorant of post war German history. Google it. You can find lots of information on the Allied occupation of Ger
by yequalsx 9y ago
Being German does not preclude you from being ignorant of post war German history. Google it. You can find lots of information on the Allied occupation of Germany. It wasn't until the Berlin airlift that feeding Germans became fashionable. My dad was in WW2 on the American side. He ended as a guard in a POW camp after the war. He'd have denied the starvation too but it did occur.
Eisenhower did want, initially, for Germany to be an agrarian society. He wasn't the only one with this view. Morganthau was not the only person with this idea.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThe first years after the war were confusing for everybody. The country had been effectively destroyed,news about German crimes slowly came out, nobody knew how the Germans would respond to occupation. It's no wonder it took years to sort things out. No matter what people in DC were planning I have never heard from people who lived then about Americans getting in the way of people trying to rebuild.
- yequalsx 9y agoBecause the Americans that people in Germany interacted with weren't making the decisions. Use Google. Research it. It's not a controversial topic in terms of historicity. Germans as a matter of deliberate policy were prevented from getting the food they needed.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI guess I'll have to take your word. From what I have heard life in the American Zone was by far the best and it was worst in the Russian Zone.