As victory approached, the Allies fought over Germany’s future. David Irving introduces a facsimile dossier on Morgenthau’s plan to dismantle industry, the Quebec negotiations and the opposition it provoked.
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Germany was nearing defeat, but the Allies were still arguing over what should happen to its factories, farms and people. Compiled and introduced by David Irving, The Morgenthau Plan, 1944–1945 combines a brief historical account with a substantial dossier of British and American documents. Its subject is Henry Morgenthau Jr.’s proposal to prevent another war by stripping Germany of much of its industrial power.
Diaries, telegrams, memoranda, letters and contemporary press reports follow the proposal through the Quebec conference and the disputes that followed. Roosevelt, Churchill, Harry Dexter White, Lord Cherwell, Henry Stimson and Anthony Eden emerge through private exchanges as well as official papers. Arguments about Lend-Lease, reparations, the Ruhr, food supplies and military government reveal how differently the participants imagined a secure peace.
The exhibits include Stimson’s objections, British responses and later recollections. Irving argues that financial pressure helped win British agreement and that elements of the plan survived in occupation policy; these are his interpretations of the record.
This hardback brings together the introductory account and documentary exhibits. The source text includes photographs, a German translation of the Treasury plan and an index.
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David Irving is a renowned British historian and author of over 30 books. Known for his meticulous primary source research, he has spent decades in archives across the globe, unearthing diaries, documents, and first-hand accounts that have reshaped our understanding of the Second World War and its key figures.
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