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Originally Posted by BigFish
We did not have troops in all of Germany...just part of it after the split! Point is we were not there rebuilding it or trying to govern it!  |
Ever here of the uhh, err, Marshall PLan? Technically, "WE" only had troops in 1/4th of Germany, France, the UK, and the Sovs split up the rest plus a 4 way split of Berlin (who here has taken the Berlin Night Train
). The ideological difference of the Soviets brought the Iron Curtain and resulted in the Berlin Airlift.
We did rebuild Germany and Japan and we, or at least our parents and grandparents and Capesams
, paid a goodly portion of it. We instituted the governments there and got them started too. But the German people and the Japanese people pulled themselves together and made something of their countries with PRIDE. But they were fully defeated militarily but fortunately did not have much in the way of roving hit squads and suicide bombers.