The Morgenthau Plan was not implemented, but would have been genocidal if it had been, because Germany was not built to sustain itself as a purely agrarian society.
I do not blame "the Jews" for the Morgenthau Plan. First, Morgenthau was one dude. Second, he was supported in his plan by Harry Hopkins, FDR (in some of his more brutal moods), and other gentile members of the Administration. Third, the US was a democratic country with free speech in which Jews were a small minority, and the fact that an effectively genocidal policy was actually seriously considered at the top level has to be considered the fault of American society in general, not "the Jews."
The big Allied postwar crime was the brutal ethnic cleansing of Germans from Eastern Europe, in which huge numbers perished miserably. But the Germans in Germany were not subject to genocide after the war, though the Morgenthau plan would have entailed genocide.
I do not blame "the Jews" for the Morgenthau Plan. First, Morgenthau was one dude. Second, he was supported in his plan by Harry Hopkins, FDR (in some of his more brutal moods), and other gentile members of the Administration. Third, the US was a democratic country with free speech in which Jews were a small minority, and the fact that an effectively genocidal policy was actually seriously considered at the top level has to be considered the fault of American society in general, not "the Jews."
The big Allied postwar crime was the brutal ethnic cleansing of Germans from Eastern Europe, in which huge numbers perished miserably. But the Germans in Germany were not subject to genocide after the war, though the Morgenthau plan would have entailed genocide.