> In a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull in September, 1945 (which made
> the front page in many newspapers), Roosevelt (taking advice from Secretary of
> the treasury Morganthau and Assistant Secretary White):
>
> "Defeat of the Nazi army will have to be followed by the eradication of
> those weapons of economic warfare."
>
> He focused on I.G. Farben but the plan was for the total elimination of all
> German armaments and chemical and metallurgical industries; desiring Germany to
> become an agrarian society. Enter Truman who felt that an Agrarian Germany
> would leave open the path for "Bolshevism." Commie-phobia, again.
>
> Patton, and other senior officers like General Draper and Forrestal, coming
> from Dillon, Read, bankers who had financed Germany after WW1, agreed and the
> grand plan of denazification became more and more dilute. Only a minority of
> industrial and Gestapo leaders were arrested and by 1946 scarcely any Nazi
> industrial leader was in custody. Many had found new jobs in the US,
> particularly in the new intelligence agencies.
>
> Right, Brad?
Brad De Long wrote:
No.
Wrong.
FDR had been dead for nearly half a year by September 1945.
glb wrote:
Opps... Change that "September, 1945" to "September 8, 1944", to be more precise:
Right, Brad?
(corrections in spelling and punctuation don't count)