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| Keywords: Germany Morgenthau Plan.png proposed entity map The 1944 U S Morgenthau Plan showing the planned partitioning of Germany into a North State a South State and an International zone Areas in grey are areas intended for annexation by France Poland and the U S S R Today Russia The background template used for this image was the following fre license image File GermanyMorgenthau PNG The Modification of the map in order to portray the dismemberment of Germany as envisioned by the U S A government under the name of the Morgenthau Plan was done by as closely as possible following the borders shown on the following two maps http //www fdrlibrary marist edu/psf/box31/a297a09 html http //zis uibk ac at 81/zisneu/dokumente/karten/2 php Both show in effect the same but the second has workable scanning resolution Stor stark7 23 18 24 February 2006 UTC The text corresponding to the map is as follows http //www fdrlibrary marist edu/psf/box31/t297a01 html 2 Partitioning of Germany a Poland should get that part of East Prussia which doesn't go to the U S S R and the southern portion of Silesia as indicated on the attached map Appendix A b France should get the Saar and the adjacent territories bounded by the Rhine and the Moselle Rivers c As indicated in part 3 an International zone should be created containing the Ruhr and the surrounding industrial areas d The remaining portion of Germany should be divided into two autonomous independent states 1 a South German state comprising Bavaria Wuerttemberg Baden and some smaller areas and 2 a North German state comprising a large part of the old state of Prussia Saxony Thuringia and several smaller states There shall be a custom union between the new South German state and Austria which will be restored to her pre-1938 political borders 3 The Ruhr Area The Ruhr surrounding industrial areas as shown on the attached map including the Rhineland the Kiel Canal and all German territory north of the Kiel Canal Here lies the heart of German industrial power the cauldron of wars This area should not only be stripped of all presently existing industries but so weakened and controlled that it can not in the fore- seeable future become an industrial area The following steps will accomplish this a Within a short period if possible not longer than 6 months after the cessation of hostilities all industrial plants and equipment not destroyed by military action shall either be completely dismantled and removed from the area or completely destroyed All equipment shall be removed from the mines and the mines shall be thoroughly wrecked It is anticipated that the stripping of this area would be accomplished in three stages i The military forces immediately upon entry into the area shal destroy all plants and equipment which cannot be removed ii Removal of plants and equipment by members of the United Nations as restitution and reparation Paragraph 4 iii All plants and equipment not removed within a stated period of time say 6 months will be completely destroyed or reduced to scrap and allocated to the United Nations b All people within the area should be made to understand that this area will not again be allowed to become an industrial area Accordingly all people and their families within the area having special skills or technical training should be encouraged to migrate permanently from the area and should be as widely dispersed as possible c The area should be made an international zone to be governed by an international security organization to be established by the United Nations In governing the area the international organization should be guided by policies designed to further the above stated objectives GFDL relicense ;The author releases his portion of the image as Maps of the history of Germany 1945 “1990 Maps of World War II in Europe Maps of Allied occupation zones of Germany Henry Morgenthau Jr 1944 in the United States | ||||
