He has given up his original idea of flooding the Ruhr minesa step that would have been one of the greatest of disasters for Europe. Instead. he now suggests that the entire German population of the Ruhr area be dumped into the interior of rump Germany. He makes this proposal without pausing to consider the economic and social effects of the deportation of another several million Germans from their traditional homelands. Physically. it is possible to destroy the German industrial economy. to prevent or curb industrial reconstruction for peacetime purposes and thus to transform the heart of Europe into an industrially barren area. Similarly. it would have been possible to send several millions Jews to Kenyato die there. for despite the testimony of Nazi experts. most of the deportees would have starved or otherwise perished.. Mr. Morgenthaus deindustrialization plan. if carried out. would wipe out the economic basis for the existence of some twentyfive to thirty million Germans.
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