At the end of the war there was a terrible problem with millions of Jewish holocaust survivors displaced and often finding they had no home on return to their native lands. There was also strong wish in some circles to dismember Germany. Austria had already been removed from the Reich.
What would be the consequences if something like the Morgenthau Plan had prevailed? Suppose that West Germany was divided into a Rhineland Republic, North German Republic and Jewish Free Republic (in what had been Bavaria). Millions had been displaced in the war and it was generally agreed the Germans had to suffer. The Bavarians were particularly identified with Nazism and so it would have appeared logical to punish them. Teh British would have supported the proposal as a way of defusing the Palestine problem. The Russian and Poles would have seenit as a way of disposing of troublesome Jewish residents who otherwise would want to return to homes in their country. American Jews might get behind the proposal. German Bavarians would have been displaced to the other West German Republics or Austria.
The Jewish Free Republic might have been an enthusiastic founding member of the European Union.
Its language might have been a modernised Yiddish. It would surely have been a succesful centre of science and culture.
What do you think?
What would be the consequences if something like the Morgenthau Plan had prevailed? Suppose that West Germany was divided into a Rhineland Republic, North German Republic and Jewish Free Republic (in what had been Bavaria). Millions had been displaced in the war and it was generally agreed the Germans had to suffer. The Bavarians were particularly identified with Nazism and so it would have appeared logical to punish them. Teh British would have supported the proposal as a way of defusing the Palestine problem. The Russian and Poles would have seenit as a way of disposing of troublesome Jewish residents who otherwise would want to return to homes in their country. American Jews might get behind the proposal. German Bavarians would have been displaced to the other West German Republics or Austria.
The Jewish Free Republic might have been an enthusiastic founding member of the European Union.
Its language might have been a modernised Yiddish. It would surely have been a succesful centre of science and culture.
What do you think?