Henry Morgenthau Jr. person
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. headed
U.S. Treasury Department documented
“And says that he led the opposition within the U.S. government to any reconciliation with Nazi Germany. He was at the time the secretary of treasury of the New York. He was a New York Democrat. And Morgenthau's views.…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. headed
U.S. State Department documented
“In Harry Morgenthau's Treasury Department, White had played a major role in shaping the New Deal policies. Among his top accomplishments were the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, two linchpins of the global fi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 57:41
Harry Dexter White member_of
Henry Morgenthau Jr. documented
“Men like Harry White had been driven from Washington, but he still served as a consultant to the IMF, and he was still widely respected. And White still had detailed inside knowledge from his years as Morgenthau's top aide. If the political…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 1:01:12
Thomas Dewey targeted_for_regime_change
Henry Morgenthau Jr. documented
“At this point, 1944 presidential election was only a month away, and the opposition Republican Party made the most of the scandal in the Democrat camp. Republican candidate Thomas Dewey charged that Morgenthau had handed the Nazis a propaga…”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt removed_from_power
Henry Morgenthau Jr. documented
“The newspaper barrage dealt Morgenthau a serious political blow. FDR stepped away from Morgenthau's plan in the weeks that followed. That's why, if you don't understand the backdrop to all of this, you really can't comprehend the role that …”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. headed
United Jewish Appeal documented
“tarred by Senator McCarthy during the witch hunt for, or the hunt for communists. Morgenthau's aide, Henry Dexter White, let's see, went on to serve as, oh, sorry, Secretary Morgenthau went on to serve as a chairman of the United Jewish App…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. headed
American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel documented
“tarred by Senator McCarthy during the witch hunt for, or the hunt for communists. Morgenthau's aide, Henry Dexter White, let's see, went on to serve as, oh, sorry, Secretary Morgenthau went on to serve as a chairman of the United Jewish App…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 44:03
Henry Morgenthau Jr. funded
Morgenthau Plan host_asserted
“By September 4th, Morgenthau's team at Treasury Department had drawn upon a detailed counterproposal. Its suggested post-surrender program for Germany, that's what it was called, suggested post-surrender program for Germany, began by laying…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 15:51
Henry Morgenthau Jr. paid
Curtiss-Wright Corporation host_asserted
“Hawley nearly wrecked the whole deal by insisting on a 10% agent commission, or $450,000 at the time, during the Curtis sale. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau protested, but was persuaded by the Chinese to approve a payment of $250,000 for a c…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. attempted_coup_against
Robert Murphy book_quoted
“began early and grew more and more, as did the opposition between Morgenthau and Murphy. By 1945, Morgenthau was using almost every audience he had with Roosevelt to argue Murphy's dismissal as the U.S. political advisor in Europe.…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. exposed
BCCI host_asserted
“The Morgenthau plan was how to keep Germany from ever being able to rearm itself after World War II. So what he proposed was makes Germany sell off all its industry and basically make them nothing but farmers. That's what Morgenthau propose…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. proposed
Claude Bowers book_quoted
“Morgan Thao responded, in order to break the State Department crowd just the way you broke the crowd of admirals when you were Assistant Secretary of the Navy, my suggestion is that you make Claude Bowers political advisor to Eisenhower. Bo…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. headed
U.S. Treasury Department guest_asserted
“I mean, his father was the secretary of the treasury for FDR.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 55:41
Henry Morgenthau Jr. exposed
Breckinridge Long host_asserted
“The impression is all around that you particularly are anti-Semitic, unquote. Morgenthau knew that a handful of Long's aide at State had for years systematically denied U.S. visas to any Jewish person seeking one. They also suppressed intel…”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. founded
IMF guest_asserted
“He was the president of the Bretton Woods Conference where they created the IMF and the World Bank.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 56:09
Henry Morgenthau Jr. founded
Bank for International Settlements guest_asserted
“He was the president of the Bretton Woods Conference where they created the IMF and the World Bank.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 56:09
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Think of you, whatever you want, think about him. But I did want to put that out, that he was the one that allowed Morgenthau, contrary to what everybody in the DOJ wanted to have happen and in the administration at the time, he stepped in …
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He's the guy who invented the Social Security system. You know, he was there. He was the president of the Bretton Woods Conference where they created the IMF and the World Bank. And he's also, you know, I think I talked about this before. H…
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The period of the Second World War was one of the most important periods in human history because at that time, the British Empire still kind of existed. America had at least 60% of the world's gold. That would go up to over 80% in the comi…
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The Morgenthau plan was how to keep Germany from ever being able to rearm itself after World War II. So what he proposed was makes Germany sell off all its industry and basically make them nothing but farmers. That's what Morgenthau propose…
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Hawley nearly wrecked the whole deal by insisting on a 10% agent commission, or $450,000 at the time, during the Curtis sale. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau protested, but was persuaded by the Chinese to approve a payment of $250,000 for a c…
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Dulles was eager to pump McKittrick for inside information about Germany, since the banker had good connections in Berlin. But the two men also wanted to discuss another issue that was paramount concern to both of them, how to protect the a…
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Harry Morgenthau Jr. developed a loathing for McKittrick. While Morgenthau's aide, Harry Dexter White, called an American bank president doing business with the Germans while our American boys are fighting the Germans. The FDR administratio…
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and intervened on the bank's behalf. Morgenthau was outraged when McKittrick made a business trip to the U.S. in the winter of 1942 and received a warm welcome on Wall Street. Dozens of powerful financiers and industrialists, including the …
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at New York's University Club in December of that year, 1942. Morgenthau tried to prevent McKittrick from returning to the Bank of International Settlements headquarters in Switzerland on the grounds that the bank was clearly aiding the Naz…
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Dulles realized that none of his arguments against Project Safe Haven would be well received by Morgenthau, so he resorted to time-honored methods of bureaucratic stalling and sabotage to sink the operation. Explaining in December 1944 memo…
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A few got out in Cuba, but the rest were not allowed to go. It was referred to as a ghost ship. So as it's cruising along the United States, Harry Morgenthau Jr., who is FDR's Treasury Secretary and Jewish himself, was pleading with the gov…
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Rumors were already circulating at the time of what was happening to Jewish people in Germany. Morgenthau lost that fight and the boat was ordered to leave. It was not going to be allowed to dock. And Morgenthau basically contacted everybod…
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That's actually in a memo. He was not interested in helping anybody leave Germany. As a result of Breckenridge Long's delaying tactic, 90% of the quotas placed for refugees from Hitler and Mussolini's reigns, which would amount to 190,000 p…
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called Long's cabal within the State Department, quote, an underground movement to let as many Jews be killed as possible. At one point, Morgenthau himself, who always tried to restrain in these debates so that he was not seen as overly rep…
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We might be a little frank, began the gentlemanly Treasury Secretary. The impression is all around that you are particularly anti-Semitic, unquote. Long was convinced that he was being persecuted by communist and extreme radicals and agitat…
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In Harry Morgenthau's Treasury Department, White had played a major role in shaping the New Deal policies. Among his top accomplishments were the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, two linchpins of the global fi…
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With a new global institutions channeling investments to needy countries in ways that produce the broadest public good rather than the private gain. When the Roosevelt administration unveiled the plans for the World Bank and IMF, Secretary …
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which were to be instrumentalities of sovereign governments and not of private financial interests as a danger to new competitors in the global market, which obviously they compromised them too. For the Dulles Group, there was a number of d…
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of the new financial system. Morgenthau and White led a movement at the conference to abolish the Bank of International Settlements, an institution they saw as an instrument of financial collaboration between New York, London, and Nazi Germ…
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Men like Harry White had been driven from Washington, but he still served as a consultant to the IMF, and he was still widely respected. And White still had detailed inside knowledge from his years as Morgenthau's top aide. If the political…
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in history is going to be changed considerably, would you not think? It proved to be a prophetic remark since after his death, White would indeed be widely condemned as a spy, a conclusion that was based largely on guilt by association. Whi…
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White felt that his communications were in line with those interests, especially his bosses, FDR and Morgenthau. By pursuing this dialogue, he believed he could help rope the Soviets into Roosevelt's New World Order. But White knew that he …
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And he basically ran Wilson's State Department. House had very powerful connections. House is, by the way, a Fabian as well. With international bankers in New York. He was influential with great financial institutions represented by Paul an…
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including a German pastor by the name of Johannes Lippius, made determined efforts to record the massacres and deportations and to mobilize world opinion against Turkish actions. The U.S. ambassador to Turkey was none other than Henry Morge…
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Ambassador Henry Morgenthau repeatedly intervened with the Turkish government to protest the killings. He raised funds for refugees and mobilized opposition to the genocide. There was strong sympathy in the United States for the Armenians t…
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Let me see if I can get that sent to you again. All right. So we're going to go ahead and get started with the lesson. We're on Chapter 10. Chapter 10 is titled The Present Ruling Class of Germany. And it starts out with Henry Morgenthau, J…
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And says that he led the opposition within the U.S. government to any reconciliation with Nazi Germany. He was at the time the secretary of treasury of the New York. He was a New York Democrat. And Morgenthau's views.…
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concerning Germany, enjoyed relatively broad support in the U.S. and won him some political allies in the Justice Department as well as the War Department. But the State Department specialists viewed him as a dangerous rival for their contr…
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and that it should be stripped of its military capacity to conduct future wars. Limiting Germany, as Morgenthau's supporters saw things, required a high degree of post-war cooperation with not just the UK, but also the Soviet Union, which, …
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Morgenthau's legal advisors at Treasury favored a tough line on the war crimes. It was unthinkable that Germany would be permitted to legalize mass murder in the looting of an entire continent. If previous international agreements on war cr…
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agenda, then justice demanded that a new legal precedent be set as a result of what had just happened. Morindau's allies contended that substantially all of the economic, political, and military elite of wartime Germany was implicated in on…
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This was clearly the type of quick justice the Soviets had in mind. The Nazis were judged on the spot by the people that they had committed crimes against. Henry Morgenthau was at that moment struggling with the State Department to an appro…
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He issued a statement congratulating the Soviets on the trial, noting that executing these commandos, the Russians are wiping off the face of the earth the most repulsive stain of the war. But the State Department and the British Foreign Of…
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to be FDR's representative to the War Crimes Committee that everyone in the State Department is trying to sabotage. But obviously he has a lot in common with the Secretary of Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., because they saw it a lot alike.…
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Hell and Morgenthau Jr. insisted upon clarifying the calculated ambiguities on war crimes policy with the State Department, and the State Department's bureaucrats fought back viciously. They pursued their own policies as FDR's health contin…
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the bombing was canceled. So you see, they're shaping the outcome of the war during the war for the oligarchs. Morgenthau got hold of a copy of Schaef's occupation policy handbook and a collection of State Department planning papers on Germ…
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hit at the roots of Nazism and would thus set the stage for renewed German aggression, which, of course, we know is exactly what they plan on doing. Morgenthau traveled to London in August 1944, officially to review U.S. policy towards Brit…
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He met with Churchill, General Eisenhower and his staff and the U.S. staff at the European Advisory Commission. Anthony Eden provided Morgenthau with confidential notes taken at Tehran concerning the Soviets and the British and what the gra…
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and Bernard Bernstein provided him with detailed reports and copies of State Department and War Department's most recent policy documents. Morgenthau emerged as by far the most informed senior US official about all of this. He didn't like w…
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would be used to obstruct U.S. responses to post-war Germany. In the case of war crimes policy and post-war treatment of German industrial elites, Schaef's proposed handbook was the most immediate problem. If adopted, it would institutional…
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Morgenthau thought, inherently flawed, perhaps criminally liable, and would remain the most important threat to world peace post-World War II. This, in turn, required U.S. acceptance of the Soviet Union as an equal among nations, stripping …
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and educated in Allied schools. This extreme step was necessary to break the ideological hold that the Nazis had been indoctrinating into their population. Upon his return, Morgenthau approached FDR with a detailed critique of the handbook.…
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By September 4th, Morgenthau's team at Treasury Department had drawn upon a detailed counterproposal. Its suggested post-surrender program for Germany, that's what it was called, suggested post-surrender program for Germany, began by laying…
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who had killed persons because of their race, religion, or political conviction, or who had committed certain other crimes. All members of the Gestapo, SS, and Nazi party were to be arrested and detained, quote, until the extent of guilt of…
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had the support of the U.S. President and his Secretary of Treasury, but of England's most prominent economist, Lord Keynes, as well. Keynes had been among the most articulate opponents of heavy reparations for Germany after World War I, wh…
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On the legal front, Morgenthau strongly backed Pell's insistence that Nazis must be punished for crimes against Axis civilians and that tough immediate action be taken immediately to rescue Hungarian Jews that were on their way to Auschwitz…
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who appears to have disliked Pell for his own independence and refusal to be a team player with the State Department. Pell remembered the acting Secretary of State as, quote, one of the stupidest men I have ever known, unquote. The War Depa…
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As he saw his task, he was to defer action once again on war crimes issue until the war was over, thereby avoiding reprisals against the US POWs. In other words, he's taking his marching orders from State Department. He did not intend to de…
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in both Auschwitz and other camps, unquote. Bernays' professional concern was primarily for European businesses, and they used the US POWs as the excuse. Bernays and the War Department did not create a war crimes prosecution strategy under …
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On the other hand, Bernays' strategy rejected the effort led by Pell and Morgenthau to set any new legal precedents on crimes against humanity. In fact, it opposed almost any development in international law beyond a very strict structure t…
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Morgenthau's group appears to have cast the first stone. Pell told columnist Drew Pearson in mid-September about the sabotage of the War Crimes Commission. The following week, Pearson followed up with revelations of FDR's stunning criticism…
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The Wall Street Journal published what amounted to the State Department's reply the very next day, stressing the most extreme features of Morgenthau's plan and its attempt to deindustrialize Germany. The New York Times and the Washington Ev…
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At this point, 1944 presidential election was only a month away, and the opposition Republican Party made the most of the scandal in the Democrat camp. Republican candidate Thomas Dewey charged that Morgenthau had handed the Nazis a propaga…
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The newspaper barrage dealt Morgenthau a serious political blow. FDR stepped away from Morgenthau's plan in the weeks that followed. That's why, if you don't understand the backdrop to all of this, you really can't comprehend the role that …
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Hitler is still safe because the U.S. State Department policy was, in PM's words, making punishment of men who perpetrated this war upon the world impossible. The firestorm of publicity forced the State Department publicly to cave in on the…
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corporate elite. State Department issued a formal statement insisting, quite falsely, that it had supported the aims of Pell's program all along. Flat out lie. Pell became a martyr in effect for the hardline approach to Nazi crimes that had…
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Murphy contended it would have to reach an understanding with the leadership in Germany. Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau and his allies regarded Murphy as an appeaser of Nazism, a man whose inaction and deceit contributed significantly to …
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began early and grew more and more, as did the opposition between Morgenthau and Murphy. By 1945, Morgenthau was using almost every audience he had with Roosevelt to argue Murphy's dismissal as the U.S. political advisor in Europe.…
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In the last days of 1944, as Dulles was in Bern drafting his brief for the Smith brothers, Morgenthau was in Washington drawing up what amounted to a manifesto on Germany for Roosevelt. Three points seem basic to Morgenthau. Germany had the…
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and the survival of the heavy industry would once again give Germany a war-making capability in the near future. Morgenthau concluded his analysis with the following. The more I think of this problem, the more I read and hear discussions of…
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and making a foe of Russia. I shudder at the sake our children will face what will follow. And of course, he was right, because they used all of that to create the Cold War, which continued to milk us dry. Robert Murphy was central to the p…
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As winter slowly gave way to spring, FDR invited Morgenthau to visit him at Warm Springs, Georgia. The president, he said, had aged terrifically and looked haggard. His hand shook so bad that he started to knock glasses over. I found his me…
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Quote, I told the president that General Lucius Clay had called on me and I had asked him what he was going to do about Murphy. And he said that he realized that was one of his headaches. The president said, well, what's the matter with Mur…
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Morgan Thao responded, in order to break the State Department crowd just the way you broke the crowd of admirals when you were Assistant Secretary of the Navy, my suggestion is that you make Claude Bowers political advisor to Eisenhower. Bo…
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President thought that it was a wonderful idea, and so he wouldn't forget it. I made him write it down. Morgenthau went on to appeal to Roosevelt's support for his battle with the State Department over U.S. strategy on Germany and the Sovie…
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Hold on. Bridget fell out. During the transition to the new president, Harry Truman, but without FDR's backing, he quickly lost influence within the government. Robert Murphy remained as Eisenhower's political advisor, and the State Departm…
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The combination of Pell's dismissal, Padover's report from Germany, Morgenthau's activism, and perhaps some fundamentally the increasing public knowledge of what the Nazis had done as far as the labor camps were concerned, took a toll on th…
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These factors undermine the ability of well-entranced functionaries in Washington to have their way. Morgenthau worked with Murray Bernays' boss, Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, to draw up a blueprint for denazification of Germany. …
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The remaining officials of the Roosevelt administration and Morgenthau himself abandoned Morgenthau's early proposals to destroy German mines and shoot senior Nazis on sight. Nonetheless, Washington remained committed to punishment of broad…
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In their reports, the visitors frequently referred to the proven impossibility of something that no one had yet tried to do, actually breaking up German banking and cartels. With equal frequency, they reported the mounting chaos that was su…
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From your more elaborate reading of it, was anyone honest in the entire denazification program? Well, the people like Morgenthau knew exactly what was going on, but they basically pushed him aside. Pell knew exactly what was going on, but t…
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What you can't do here, we want you to make sure we're able to do in Germany. So set that up and fix it. Okay. At the time, Morgenthau, Pell.…
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He supposedly committed suicide by jumping out of a window while he was being attended to in a medical facility because of a nervous breakdown. Many lawyers and economists from Henry Morgenthau's team at Treasury went on to serve a year or …
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tarred by Senator McCarthy during the witch hunt for, or the hunt for communists. Morgenthau's aide, Henry Dexter White, let's see, went on to serve as, oh, sorry, Secretary Morgenthau went on to serve as a chairman of the United Jewish App…
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A half dozen senior administrative officials responsible for various aspects of the refugee issue met in the office of the Secretary of Treasury, who happened to be Henry Morgenthau Jr., the son of World War I U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, who…
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A half dozen senior administrative officials responsible for various aspects of the refugee issue met in the office of the Secretary of Treasury, who happened to be Henry Morgenthau Jr., the son of World War I U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, who…
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The subject of the meeting was eliminating obstacles to the rescue of refugees from Europe. Members of Morgenthau's staff were at the moment tracing State Department policy concerns in Europe over the last four years. The title of their rep…
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Secretary Morgenthau, a close political ally of Herbert Pell in the war crimes debates, squinted down through his glasses at Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long. The two officials had frequently locked horns over what to do about…
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Long insisted he was doing everything possible to rescue refugees and that rumors questioning his commitment were untrue. Morgenthau, in his diary, noted, quote, I looked him right in the eye. Well, Breck, as long as you raise the question,…
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man whose indiscreet praise of Mussolini and Italian fascism during the 1930s had once made headlines, talking about Breckenridge. He was not about to permit himself to be pinned down on the wrong side of this issue. He attempted to blame a…