We did it by treated German POWs held in the USA well. Not just the US Government, but the American people treated them well. They had been told by the Nazis that America was weak, divided, and a mongrel race. The POWs saw the American people and society with their own eyes and then went home after the war.
And then built modern Germany.
We came to America as enemies, as Nazis, as believers in a lie. We left as friends, as democrats, as men who had seen the truth.
Many of the POWs who were employed on Kansas farms corresponded for decades with the families who showed them friendship as POW workers.
Playback has been disabled for this video (from which I got the quote above), but I encourage every reader to go watch it. If you don't - like I did - end up with watery eyes then we just cant be friends anymore. And to those who think this video is a one-off, there are more. So many more. You can watch them at the link (from Youtube suggestions) or you can watch this:
And a note to the Usual Suspects who fancy themselves as "Anti Nazi": this is what anti-Nazi is really about. This is how you turn actual, you know - Nazis - into anti-Nazis. It must really bust your chops to have Primary Sources telling you that your philosophy of life is full of shiest. You Commie Bastards.
Oh, this will too (note the substitution of the word freiheit - freedom - for freunde - I could translate for you but I wouldn't want to insult you; me, I think that Schiller would have approved of Bernstein's substitution at the fall of the Berlin Wall).
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Funny, I was just watching some of those videos. And yes, treating the POWs as human beings made a huge difference. And helping via the Marshall plan was unheard of before and very effective. I wonder if those in Europe today still appreciate those measures?
The side effects of the Berlin Airlift are not to be ignored. The US, mostly, and Britain, flew in enough supplies to feed and continue to rebuild West Berlin. Besides food and coal, we delivered construction equipment, construction materials, rebuilt runways, created the modern air-traffic control system including incoming and outgoing air corridors and so much more.
We won the physical war.
We lost big time here in the states. The soviets took over our news media and Hollywood. They took over our teachers and our colleges (and, through that, the whole government education system.) They shut down nuclear development (all those protests? Soviet funded.) They paid and formented student unrest that still to this day shows up (what? modern Antifa and BLM and other ethnic and student and class oriented protest groups were all started and funded by... the Soviets.)
The Soviets, by the end of WWII, mostly controlled the US State Department. Which, even with the Soviets gone, still follows what the Soviets wanted.
Most of the environmental groups? Soviet funded.
The world-wide war on religion? Soviet funded.
The world-wide war on exceptionalism? Soviet funded.
They... won the psychological war. Bigly. Just look at the current Democratic Party.
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