The President's Economic Mission to Germany and Austria
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"The President's Economic Mission to Germany and Austria" was the title of a series of reports commissioned by U.S. President Harry S. Truman and written by former President Herbert Hoover.
Based on Hoover's previous experience with Germany at the end of World War I, in the winter of 1946 - 47 President Harry S. Truman selected Hoover to do a tour of Europe, focusing on Germany and Austria in order to ascertain the food situation of the occupied nations. Hoover toured what was to become West Germany in Field Marshall Herman Goering's old train coach and produced a number of reports sharply critical of U.S. occupation policy.
The economy of Germany had "...sunk to the lowest level in a hundred years"[1].
Hoover proposed a changed economic occupation policy in his reports, if nothing else but for the sake of sparing the American taxpayers the burden of supporting Central Europe indefinitely.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Michael R. Beschloss, The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (2002) pg.277
[edit] External links
- Truman library document collection
- Herbert Hoover's 1946 - 1947 factfinding mission to Germany. (Report No.1), (Report No.3)
