"shockingly quaint" That's basically what happened to WW2 Germany. The country was crushed to the point where they unconditionally surrendered, killing 5 milli

"shockingly quaint" That's basically what happened to WW2 Germany. The country was crushed to the point where they unconditionally surrendered, killing 5 million German soldiers in the process. Nazism is pretty much dead in Germany. So the approach did in fact work, and quite possibly would have worked even without the Marshal plan.