Five chapters from Morgenthau’s book, Germany is our Problem, here published with an introductory note by Ellopos. Emphasis, in bold or italic letters, by Ellopos. Complete book in print.
First, secure ample funds abroad, for which purpose the
Nazis were relaxing rules against exporting capital. These funds are to be at
the disposal of the Nazis in their underground campaign, (but the
industrialists will be repaid by concessions and orders when the party comes
back to power.) Two Swiss banks through which operations may be conducted were
named, and the possibility of acquiring a Swiss dummy at a cost of 5 per cent
was noted.
Second, each of the big German factories was to create a
small research bureau that had no ostensible connection with the main plant.
They were to be hidden in the cities or camouflaged in villages near
water-power sites under the guise of studying hydroelectric resources. All
plans, drawings and documents needed to continue research into new weapons of
war were to be turned over to the bureaus but, they "must not be allowed
to fall into the hands of the enemy." Each bureau also was to have its
liaison agent with the Nazis.
Third, while the Nazis recognize "that certain of its
best known leaders will be condemned as war criminals," the industrialists
are to End safe places in the research bureaus for "less conspicuous but
most important members."
In the face of such planning, the road to war could not be
blocked by the kind of controls the Allies imposed last time, even if more
rigorously applied. In the light of history and what we know of German plans
for writing another chapter of history, we could look forward to this sort of a
program:
1. Destruction of all German weapons and military
installations. But they would be obsolete before the Germans would want them
anyway.
