Morgenthau

Best.-Nr. 72760 — E-197. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers New York 1945. Xiii 239 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities DJ is chipped at the crown of the DJ and at the top edge of the rear panel of the DJ. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This work written by Henry Morgenthau Jr. 1891-1967 while serving as the Secretary of the Treasury for President Franklin D. Roosevelt details his plan for the occupation of Germany after World War II. His proposal sought to eliminate the war-making potential of Germany for all time through territorial dismemberment and deindustrialization. The Morgenthau Plan guided the early German occupation but was scrapped in favor of the Marshall Plan. Historians believe that full-scale deindustrialization of Germany would have resulted in the starvation of 25 million German citizens. When word of this ominous plan leaked to Goebbels in the latter stages of WWII he exploited it to stiffen German resistance thus extending the war and adding to the American casualty count. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover