Marshall Plan was a self-serving project so Europe could buy US stuff to rebuild. NOT altruistic AT ALL.
Nazi Germany was completely defeated ... humiliated... bombed into rubble and dust. Germany today could have be just an agricultural nation if the Allies wanted it that way.
Marshall Plan was a self-serving project so Europe could buy US stuff to rebuild. NOT altruistic AT ALL.
Of course it was not altruistic.
It was, however, genius. It also allowed us to buy their stuff. It was a fantastic economic maneuver.
Compare this to what the Russians did with Eastern Europe... Tell me what worked?
Didn't say it wasn't, but Allies could have could have stripped them of all industry. Probably wouldn't have one of the strongest economies in the world if the Allies had relegated them to a farm country.
Oh yeah I forgot, the Germans were horrible at producing things.
Its pretty clear they had no idea how to manufacture products.
Dumbass...
the fact that they didn't should tell you something..it means that they felt that they could trust the germans, hardly the big blood thirsty meanies that shekelstein shills you about
No we did not. And should not have.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-969015.html
But we did kick their butts so badly that we had to do something.
Jesus, you pretend to be a GD nazi yet you don't keep up with anything.
Hitler would have reduced incompetent fools like you to moving rocks.
After WWII, the European, esp German, industrial and agricultural basees was were way, way down, producing not enough for themselves, never mind selling to USAThe Allies capped German steel production and dismantled over 1000 German factories.
The Marshall Plan appx $500B 1945-1953 in loans and grants was for European reconstruction and for buying stuff from USA.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-14-2014 at 06:06 AM.
WWI...
In Which war did you receive head wounds?
Do you get the Marshall plan helped them revive their industry which we then bought from. Getting a country you have just destroyed does not do a damn thing if they can't make things to sell. All for them to buy US stuff? You are as bad as the nazi m>s.
How the did the West Germans recover so quickly great boot head?
Last edited by pgardn; 07-13-2014 at 11:54 PM.
Boutons, you show your ignorance so often and you really did in this post. The Germans concentrated on exports, as well as all of Europe, and the UK. They used what they could salvage, including making toys from the G.I.'s beer cans and exporting them to the U.S. for hard currency. Do you know the real reason for the Marshall plan. Read some of your favorite literature, I am sure you can find some crying in the beer from you favorite political party, The Communist, how it defeated their efforts in Germany.
TLDR.
Is there something in there that I should care about?
I guess you'll never see it with those blinders on.
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