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Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau is discussing with Secretary of War Stimson about post-war plans for Germany.
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Morgenthau was intrigued, but he said he favored “removing all industry” from the Germans and “reducing them to an agricultural population of small landholders.”
“Germany was that kind of nation back in 1860,” said the Secretary of War, “but then she had only forty million people.... You might have to take a lot of people out of Germany.”
Morgenthau replied, “Well, that is not nearly as bad as sending them to gas chambers!”
-- "The Couquerors" by MIchael Beschloss
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Morgenthau was intrigued, but he said he favored “removing all industry” from the Germans and “reducing them to an agricultural population of small landholders.”
“Germany was that kind of nation back in 1860,” said the Secretary of War, “but then she had only forty million people.... You might have to take a lot of people out of Germany.”
Morgenthau replied, “Well, that is not nearly as bad as sending them to gas chambers!”
-- "The Couquerors" by MIchael Beschloss
