PUNITIVE PEACE PLAN IMPOSED ON GERMANY
Washington, D.C. • May 10, 1945 On this date in 1945 President Harry S. Truman signed the Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067. The person behind the directive was Henry Morgenthau, Jr., President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s former Treasury Secretary who had long advocated that postwar German occupation include measures to eliminate Germany’s ability to wage…