On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Seth Ackerman wrote:
> But remember, originally they wanted to pastoralize Germany and impose a
> punitive peace. They only reversed course under pressure from communism
> and the left.
My impression is that Morgenthau, FDR's Treasury secretary, was the only real advocate of that position in the upper reaches of power, and that FDR had already firmly decided against it long before he went to Yalta -- that is, when the model of US/USSR relations was still one of cooperation and the cold war was only a glint in Averill Harriman's eye.
Michael