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. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco ...

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian ...

United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau agreed, and formulated a plan that would punish Germany by deindustrializing its economy and summarily executing Nazi leaders. But when ...