Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (Directive JCS 1067) which was in effect the military enactment of the ‘Morgenthau Plan’ and which deliberately imposed conditions upon the conquered German people designed to reduce their population numbers significantly through hardship and starvation and designed to strip Germany of most of her manufacturing capability so that the German nation would be irrevocably weakened and never be a military threat to other nations again.

Official figures estimate German military deaths at approximately 5.5 million and German civilian deaths at just 3.5 million (9 million in total), however the pre-war (1939) population of German provinces, including Germany proper, the Sudetenlands, Prussia, Posen, Pomerania, Silesia, and Alsace Lorraine, totalled just over 80 million people, compared to a post–war (1946) population for both East andWest Germany of just 65 million. The ethnic German populations of the Sudetenlands, Prussia, Posen, Pomerania, Silesia, and Alsace Lorraine were forcibly expelled their homelands and were forced marched in some cases hundreds of miles to within the borders of modern Germany. Furthermore, much of the population of what was East Germany fled into what became West Germany, in order to avoid being captured by the Russians. This reduction of the Germany nation from 80 million to just 65 million indicates that in addition to the 9 million official deaths, there were a further six million Germans who died as a result of these expulsion and the hardship and starvation suffered under JCS 1067.

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