“At the end of the 2nd World War, many plans existed on how to deal with the German question. Some argued Europe without Germany could not sustain itself economically and should be de-Nazified and rehabilitated. Others, fuelled by revenge for the damage caused by her, argued for the total extermination of the German state and people. The final plan was more like the latter than the former. “The warmongering German people” should pay for their crimes with territorial concessions to their neighbours, forced sterilisation of all adults deemed to be Nazis, and naturalisation of the remainder. To lower the population even further