Germany is Our Problem

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. viii, 4, ix - xiii, [iii], 239 pp. + foldout map. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with light toning to contents and bookplate to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning and light edgewear and soiling. Several scratches to front panel, 3 archival tape repairs to chipping at upper edge and small hole at lower right of front panel. Henry Morgenthau's controversial plan for postwar Germany. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called for the defeated enemy's total deindustrialization, (truncated) decentralization, and transformation into a pastoral society. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regretted his initial support for Morgenthau's plan after it was vigorously decried at home and abroad, and his successor favored the less vengeful and more pragmatic Marshall Plan. (Inventory #: 140947693)