Comment by FireBeyond
4 days ago
Crediting the US for Germany's post-WWII transition is a bit of a stretch. There were quite a few more players involved.
4 days ago
Crediting the US for Germany's post-WWII transition is a bit of a stretch. There were quite a few more players involved.
Considering the Soviet strategy of stripping assets from the East and the fact that Britain and France were broke and in shambles - yes, the Marshall plan deserves great credit. To this day East German states remain the poorest in the nation.
To be fair they had kind of started implementing the Morgenthau Plan until they realized that maybe it wasn't the best idea (and the British played a significant role in convincing the US government about that...)
1945 to ~1947 were very rough in Germany even in the allied occupation zones (and that was at least partially an outcome of a conscious decision by the allies to not allow German industry to recover)
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