Morgenthau Plan

Morgenthau's Plan for complete deindustrialization of Germany and its return to an agricultural economy and state.

25 million Germans starvation would have been accepted.

1. Demilitarization of Germany
2. Division of Germany
3. Internationalization of the Ruhr area
4. Compensation and reparations payments
5. Deindustrialization of the German economy
6. Educational reform and re-education
7. Redesign of the political system

The Morgenthau Plan was presented on 1 September 1944. It was developed by the US Treasury Department headed by Henry Morgenthau Jr.