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Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan

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Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan
The Reichstag building, which houses Germany's lower house of parliament (the Bundestag) is reflected in the river Spree in Berlin on Dec. 27, 2024. John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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Less than a year before the end of World War II, then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”