Professor James J. Martin was a well-known historian of revisionist books and articles. The Morgenthau Plan and its Aftermath was an article published in the Fall 1974 issue of The American Mercury magazine.
THE world respected military historian, Major General J. F. C. Fuller, in his The Second World War, 1939-1945 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949) described it as the most savage conflict since the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). It was marked by a degree of venomous and malicious vengefulness probably unknown since the genocidal wars described in the Old Testament. Racial and civil wars are without doubt the most vicious and ferocious, and World War Two in the West was a European civil war, while the Pacific portion of this clash was undoubtedly racial to a very large degree. Especially repulsive was the extent to which the war was visited upon the non-combatant populations, to a far greater degree by the winners than the losers, and on a scale which would have para-of the Eighteenth Century, tor example, with horror-stricken disbelief.
General Fuller advanced additional characteristics of World War Two which were especially ominous in their degenerative consequences, among them the utter absence of war aims among the ultimate victors other than sheer annihilation of their adversaries, which in his view put the “United Nations” in the same camp with the Mongols on the Thirteenth Century. Another was the mindless pre-occupation with remorseless severity in the treatment of the losing peoples after the war was over, pursued with a pitiless and ruthless diligence matching anything ever known in the past, and in many respects exceeding previous achievements in unrestrained barbarousness.
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