POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Morgenthau Plan, Economic Reconstruction
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6 Jun 2012
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Devastation in war is going to require economic reconstruction, and a large part of the post war period can be understood economically as an attempt to reconstruct domestic economies. Political reconstruction took the shape of democratic consolidation. The fate of europe was closely tied to germany and how to deal with the german problem, and the question is how to avoid a recurrence of wars connected to the. Germany had been historically the economic engine of europe, so to reconstruct. Germany economically on an industrial base, in order to facilitate european growth, it was necessary to ensure that the german industrial complex not be put to military ends. Some policy makers suggested germany be industrialized entirely, and proposed plans such as the morgenthau plan (by americans) which keeps them from being a military threat if germany was de-industrialized, but this would cause much slower.
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