Haffrung t1_j7lrtfs wrote
Reply to comment by iMattist in Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped? by Techno-87
>Said that, some Allied Generals didn’t want to destroy Germany, they were much more preoccupied with Communist Russia than with the Germans.
A handful. But that was hardly the typical view. Unconditional victory over Nazi Germany was the overriding goal of all the Allies in top policy-making roles. George Marshall actually wanted to deindustrialize Germany so it would be a half-starved agrarian society for a generation or two.
Miss_Speller t1_j7m2zc0 wrote
He obviously had a change of heart later - as Secretary of State he proposed and implemented the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Germany and the rest of Europe after the war.
Haffrung t1_j7m7vu4 wrote
My bad - it was by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who wanted to deindustrialize Germany.
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