Germany - United States Relations: Ich Bin Ein Berliner, Morgenthau Plan, Embassy of the United States in Berlin, Zimmermann Telegram

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Ich bin ein Berliner, Morgenthau Plan, Embassy of the United States in Berlin, Zimmermann Telegram, Zweibrucken Air Base, Tear down this wall!, Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, Consulate General of the United States in Hamburg, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., German-American International School, Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor, Your Job in Germany, Here Is Germany, German-American Institute, Nuremberg, Bosch fellowship, U.S. Consulate General Munich, CIA activities in Germany, United States declaration of war upon Germany, Bacatec, U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James F. Byrnes Institute, German Scholars Boston, German American Partnership Program. Excerpt: The Morgenthau Plan, proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., advocated that the Allied occupation of Germany following World War II include measures to eliminate Germany's ability to wage war. In the original proposal this was to be achieved in three main steps. At the Second Quebec Conference on September 16, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, Jr. persuaded the initially very reluctant British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree to the plan, likely using a $6 billion Lend Lease agreement to do so. Churchill chose however to narrow the scope of Morgenthau's proposal by drafting a new version of the memorandum, which ended up being the version signed by the two statesmen. The memorandum concluded is looking forward to converting Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in its character. News of the existence of the plan was leaked to the press. President Roosevelt's response to press inquiries was to deny the press reports. In wartime Germany, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels ...