then US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II — along ...

This footage from Berlin shows the four U.N. officials Montgomery, Eisenhower, Zhukov, and de Lattre de Tassigny meeting about German reconstruction.

then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II -- along ...

Britain had been at war with Germany since Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. The USSR allied itself with Britain in 1941 when Germany began to invade its territories. In December 1941 ...

The Treaty of Versailles, the peace agreement reached after WWI, made Germany accept responsibility for starting the conflict and forced it to pay back massive debts. The German economy was in ...