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"Reparations shall be effected by the transfer of existing resources and territories, e.g.... by transfer of
German territory and Germany private rights in industrial property situated in such territory to
invading countries....' by the removal and distribution among devastated countries of industrial plants
and equipment... by forced German labor outside Germany, * and by confiscation of all German
assets of any character whatsoever outside of Germany." - Henry Morgenthau
* Forced labor outside Germany is of course, the export of slaves.
Germany, one of the world's richest countries had been mugged and then made to compensate the
nations that had carried out the attack.
THE HAGUE CONVENTION: "Private property cannot be confiscated."
It is always interesting to note that whereas Hitler's Germany often stands accused of breaking pacts
and agreements, which in fact it did not; the Treaty of Versailles, the Hague Convention, the Geneva
Conventions, the Locarno Agreements, the Rhine Pact, were all repeatedly flouted by the allied and
Soviet signatories.
"Flagrant Big Four violations not only create the injustices the laws were established t prevent but
incriminate the victors of World War Two, for the very actions for which they so strongly and justly
blamed Hitler." -Ralph Franklin Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, The Institute of American Economics
WAR COMPENSATION
"At Potsdam Russia was apportioned the lion's share of reparations. She was to receive her own zone
(East Germany/East Berlin) plus 25% from other zones."
The value of Germany's bombed and battered plant was put at between 5 and 10 billion dollars; half
of it was in the Russian zone and was hers 'by right of conquest'. It was agreed that 40% of it could
be removed to the USSR. Three-hundred and ten plants were dismantled and accordingly removed.
LOOTING TO THE WEST
"Six shiploads carrying the physical assets of the Deschmag Shipyard, Germany's largest shipbuilding
company and valued at $4,800,000. Twenty car loads of machinery and tools valued at $5,000,000,
representing half of Germany's largest ball-bearing plant, the Gendorf Amorgana Chemical works
valued at $10,000,000, and the vast Daimler-Benz underground aircraft engine plant."
LOOTING: TO THE EAST
"By May, according to Reparations Commissioner, Edwin W. Pauley, the United States had
earmarked 144 plants for removal to Russia."
"Many of Germany's greatest producers of civilian goods were dismantled and shipped eastwards.
Among them were the two largest factories, the largest sugar refineries, the largest grain processing
mills in Europe, the great Bemberg silk mills famous for their hosiery and lingerie, and the Zeiss
Optical works at Jena.
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