The Ghost of Morganthau Haunts Our House

The United States must have surrendered after World War II ended.   The reason I say that is because the Morganthau Plan for Post World War II Germany is being implemented in our country.  It began visibly in the 1960's and it's been proceeding incrementally ever since - accelerating after September 11, 2001. It is this writer's opinion that it actually began with the decision to implement the Marshall Plan in 1947 which was concurrent with the 1946-47 reorganization of our government and the establishment of the shadow government run out of the State Department. 

The objective of the Morganthau Plan was to deindustrialize Germany so that the German people could never again rise militarily to threaten the world - at least that's how it was presented.  However, Professor Anthony Kubek discovered there was more to it than that:

"Stated in its simplest terms, the objective of the Morgenthau Plan was to de-industrialize Germany and diminish its people to a pastoral existence once the war was won. If this could be accomplished, the militaristic Germans would never rise again to threaten the peace of the world. This was the justification for all the planning, but another motive lurked behind the obvious one. The hidden motive was unmasked in a syndicated column in the New York Herald Tribune in September 1946, more than a year after the collapse of the Germans. The real goal of the proposed condemnation of "all of Germany to a permanent diet of potatoes" was the communization of the defeated nation. "The best way for the German people to be driven into the arms of the Soviet Union," it was pointed out, "was for the United States to stand forth as the champion of indiscriminate and harsh misery in Germany."4

Anyone who studies the Morgenthau Diaries can hardly fail to be deeply impressed by the tremendous power which accumulated in the grasping hands of Dr. Harry Dexter White, who in 1953 was identified by Edgar Hoover as a Soviet agent. White assumed full responsibility for "all matters with which the Treasury Department has to deal having a bearing on foreign relations..."5 He and his colleagues had Secretary Morgenthau's complete approval in the formulation of a blueprint for the permanent elimination of Germany as a world power. The benefits which might accrue to the Soviet Union as a result of such Treasury planning were incalculable."  ~  Professor Anthony Kubek, The Morgenthau Plan and the Problem of Policy Perversion

For the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, this tribute to General George Marshall was written by By Erik Reinert and Jomo K. S.

By late 1946, however, economic hardship and unemployment in Germany were worrying the United States, and former President Herbert Hoover was sent there on a fact-finding mission. Hoover’s third report of 18 March 1947 noted: “There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ‘pastoral state’. It cannot be done unless we exterminate or move 25,000,000 people out of it.” Hoover well understood that an agricultural economy would be able to sustain a much smaller population than an industrialized nation.

Hence, the only option was to re-industrialize. Less than three months later, Marshall’s landmark speech reversed policy. Germany and the rest of Europe were to be re-industrialized with policies that included heavy-handed economic interventions, such as high duties, quotas and import prohibitions. Free trade would be possible only after reconstruction and international competitiveness had been achieved.

Marshall’s short speech made four other important points. In describing how Germany’s economy had ground to a halt, Marshall noted the breakdown of trade between city and countryside. Marshall thus recalled a centuries-old European economic insight: all wealthy nations have cities with a manufacturing sector. “The remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the European people.” Marshall’s recognition of such “vicious circles” was to become the vogue in subsequent development economic analysis.
 

A copy of the original Morganthau Plan can be found on the FDR library website.   

 

Directive to

Commander-in-Chief of United States Forces of Occupation Regarding the
Military

Government of Germany; April 1945 (JCS 1067)

 

 

The list below are the main elements of the Morganthau Plan followed by a link to a webpage where there is a description of how that item was/is being implemented in the United States.  The hyperlinks on numbered items will take you to the webpage where I describe the implementation in the United States. 

 

I wasn't quite finished with this yet, but I got a link to an article on the Wall Street Journal website that is a significant proof for what I've said here.  In particular, Items 2 and 6 concerning the partitioning of America.  No doubt the Wall Street Journal would say they were just floating it as an idea... but the idea is treason in a normal world in which the United States is a sovereign nation. 

 

Divided We Stand:   Imagine Breaking Up the United States

 

 

The Morganthau Plan

 

Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany        

 
 
1.  Demilitarization of Germany.

It should be the aim of the Allied Forces to accomplish the complete demilitarization of Germany in the shortest possible period of time after surrender. This means completely disarming the German Army and people (including the removal or destruction of all war material), the total destruction of the whole  German armament industry, and the removal or destruction of other key industries which are basic to military strength.

Demilitarization of the United States
 

2.  Partitioning of Germany.
 
 
 (a)  Poland should get that part of East Prussia which doesn't go to the U.S.S.R. and the southern 
portion of Silesia as indicated on the attached map, (Appendix A).

 

 (b)  France should get the Saar and the adjacent territories bounded by the Rhine and the  
Moselle Rivers.
 
 (c)  As indicated in part 3 an International Zone should be created containing the Ruhr and the 
surrounding industrial areas.
 
 (d)  The remaining portion of Germany should be divided into two autonomous, independent 
states, 
(1) a South German state comprising Bavaria, Wuerttemberg, Baden and some smaller
areas and 
(2) a North German state comprising a large part of the old state of Prussia, Saxony. 
Thuringia and several smaller states.

There shall be a custom union between the new South German state and Austria, which will be restored to her pre-1938 political borders.

Partitioning of the United States

 

3. The Ruhr Area.

(The Ruhr, surrounding industrial areas, as shown on the attached map, including the Rhineland, the Keil Canal, and all German territory north of the Keil Canal.


Here lies the heart of German industrial power, the cauldron of wars. This area should not only be stripped of all presently existing industries but so weakened and controlled that it can not in the foreseeable future become an industrial area. The following steps will accomplish this:

(a) Within a short period, if possible not longer than 6 months after the cessation of hostilities, all industrial plants and equipment not destroyed by military action shall either be completely dismantled and removed from the area or completely destroyed. All equipment shall be removed from the mines and the mines shall be thoroughly wrecked.


It is anticipated that the stripping of this area would be accomplished in three stages:


(i) The military forces immediately upon entry into the area shall destroy all plants and equipment which cannot be removed.

(ii) Removal of plants and equipment by members of the United Nations as restitution and reparation (Paragraph 4).

(iii) All plants and equipment not removed within a stated period of time, say 6 months, will be completely destroyed or reduced to scrap and allocated to the United Nations.

(b) All people within the area should be made to understand that this area will not again be allowed to become an industrial area. Accordingly, all people and their families within the area having special skills or technical training should be encouraged to migrate permanently from the area and should be as widely dispersed as possible.



(c) The area should be made an international zone to be governed by an international security organization to be established by the United Nations. In governing the area the international organization should be guided by policies designed to further the above stated objectives.

Industrial Production Areas in the United States

 
4. Restitution and Reparation.


Reparations, in the form of recurrent payments and deliveries, should not be demanded. Restitution and reparation shall be effected by the transfer of existing German resources and territories, e.g,


(a) by restitution of property looted by the Germans in territories occupied by them;


(b) by transfer of German territory and German private rights in industrial property situated in such territory to invaded countries and the international organization under the program of partition;


(c) by the removal and distribution among devastated countries of industrial plants and equipment situated within the International Zone and the North and South German states delimited in the section on partition;


(d) by forced German labor outside Germany; and


(e) by confiscation of all German assets of any character whatsoever outside of Germany.

U.S. Restitution and Reparations

    

 

5. Education and Propaganda.


(a) All schools and universities will be closed until an Allied Commission of Education has formulated an effective reorganization program. It is contemplated that it may require a considerable period of time before any institutions of higher education are reopened. Mean-while the education of German students in foreign universities will not be prohibited. Elementary schools will be reopened as quickly as appropriate teachers and textbooks are available.


(b) All German radio stations and newspapers, magazines, weeklies, etc. shall be discontinued until adequate controls are established and an appropriate program formulated.

Education in the United States.
6. Political Decentralization.


The military administration in Germany in the initial period should be carried out with a view toward the eventual partitioning of Germany into three states. To facilitate partitioning and to assure its permanence the military authorities should be guided by the following principles:

(a) Dismiss all policy-making officials of the Reich government and deal primarily with local governments.

(b) Encourage the reestablishment of state governments in each of the states (Lander) corresponding to 18 states into which Germany is presently divided and in addition make the Prussian provinces separate states.

(c) Upon the partition of Germany, the various state governments should be encouraged to organize a federal government for each of the newly partitioned areas. Such new governments should be in the form of a confederation of states, with emphasis on states' rights and a large degree of local autonomy.

American Political Decentralization
7. Responsibility of Military for Local German Economy.

The sole purpose of the military in control of the German economy shall be to facilitate military operations and military occupation.  The Allied Military Government shall not assume responsibility for such economic problems as price controls, rationing, unemployment, production, reconstruction, distribution, consumption, housing, or transportation, or take any measures designed to maintain or strengthen operations. The responsibility for sustaining the German economy and people rests with the German people with such facilities as may be available under the circumstances.

8. Controls over Development of German Economy.


During a period of at least twenty years after surrender adequate controls, including controls over foreign trade and tight restrictions on capital imports, shall be maintained by the United Nations designed to prevent in the newly-established states the establishment or expansion of key industries basic to the German military potential and to control other key industries.

 

9. Punishment of War Crimes and Treatment of Special Groups.


There is attached (Appendix B) a program for the punishment of certain war crimes and for the treatment of Nazi organizations and other special groups.

 

10. Wearing of Insignia and Uniforms.

(a) No person in German (except members of the United Nations and neutral countries) shall be permitted to wear any military insignia of rank or branch of service, service ribbons or military medals.

(b) No such persons shall be permitted to wear, after 6 months from the cessation of hostilities any military uniform or any uniform of any quasi military organizations.
 

11. Prohibition on Parades.

No military parades shall be permitted anywhere in German and all military bands shall be disbanded.


12. Aircraft.

All aircraft (including gliders), whether military or commercial, will be confiscated for later disposition. No German shall be permitted to operate or to help operate such aircraft, including those owned by foreign interests.

13. United States Responsibility.


(a) The responsibility of for the execution of the post-surrender program for Germany set forth in this memorandum is the joint responsibility of the United Nations. The execution of the joint policy agreed upon shall therefore eventually be entrusted to the international body which emerges from United Nations discussions.


Consideration of the specific measures to be taken in carrying out the joint program suggests the desirability of separating the task to be performed during the initial period of military occupation from those which will require a much longer period of execution. While the U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. will, for practical reasons, play the major role (of course aided by the military forces of the United Nations) in demilitarizing Germany (point 1) the detailed execution of other parts of the program can best be handled by Germany's continental neighbors.

(b) When Germany has been completely demilitarized there would be the following distribution of duties in carrying out the German program:

(i) The U.S. would have military and civilian representation on whatever international commission or commissions may be established for the execution of the whole German program and such representatives should have adequate U.S. staffs.


(ii) The primary responsibility for the policing of Germany and for Civil administration in Germany would be assumed by the military forces of Germany's continental neighbors. Specifically, these should include Russian, French, Polish, Cech, Greek, Yugoslav, Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian soldiers.


(c) Under this program United States troops could be withdrawn within a relatively short time. Actual withdrawal of United States troops should not precede agreement with the U.S.S.R. and the U.K. on the principles set forth in this memorandum.

14. Appointment of an American High Commissioner

An American High Commissioner for Germany should be appointed as soon as possible, so that he can sit in on the development of the American views on this problem.

Foreign High Commissioner for America:   Barack Hussein Obama   

Note:  I should put a question mark after Obama's name... but I don't want to.  This is my disclaimer to say that I don't know it for a fact, but I do believe it's true. 

 

Vicky Davis,
June 16, 2009