I don't think it's crazy to say that visiting vengeance on the German populace would have been the best plan, much as it might feel better from a moral perspective. Speaking as one of those who'd have been in the camps, and all that.
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @ForestaWriter and
And there are a lot of pretty practical and self-interested reasons - and even moral ones, when it comes to it. Otherwise there'd be no point in the Nuremburg trials, or the ICJ, or doing anything except for example, razing Serbia.
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Replying to @ForestaWriter @Mad_Science_Guy and
Okay so there's quite a lot of room between "Kill every single German citizen outside the camps and leave the country empty" and what actually happened The most punitive approach actually proposed, the Morgenthau Plan, would've probably led to many deaths but wasn't "genocide"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ForestaWriter and
You can say that depopulating Germany would be bad, and deindustrializing Germany would be bad, and all manner of things would be bad, without saying that the enormously conciliatory terms of the Marshall Plan were the best of all possible worlds
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ForestaWriter and
There’s quite a difference between “best of all worlds” and “getting of easy” though.
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Apologies, typos are not gonna help here. “Germans” got of easy. Aside from the fact that the Marshal plan was not meant as a consequence of WW2, it was meant to prevent losing the western control sphere to the Soviets.
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Replying to @queervidual
Yes, the *reason* they got off easy wasn't because the Allies were run by particularly nice, compassionate people (Churchill's opposition to the Morgenthau Plan, as I just said, was selfish concern for the economic well-being of the UK) But they did get off easy nonetheless
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Replying to @arthur_affect
So we get back to the point where we started. You would have innocent bystanders be punished even if they might have fought, resisted, but in a way none would see. Just for being born into an authoritarian regime. That’s were my counterpoint comes from.
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Do you think that if a slavery reparations bill ever passes in the US, I should personally be exempt from paying it because my ancestors weren't here before the Civil War, or because I can point to tweets and articles that say "I'm not racist, I'm a good one!"
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