U.S. Foreign Policy Criticized for Post-WWII Actions and Cold War Escalation
A 1968 article by Brigadier General Hugh Bryan Hester, a former U.S. Army officer and head of the U.S. Food and Agriculture Program for Germany (1945-1947), critiques Western foreign policy, particularly that of the United States, regarding post-World War II Germany and the origins of the Cold War. Hester argues that the U.S. deliberately sabotaged the Potsdam Agreement, which aimed for a demilitarized, denazified, and democratic Germany. He asserts that the U.S. airlifted useful war criminals to American soil even before the agreement was signed, betraying its spirit. Hester contends that the division of Germany and Europe was primarily the responsibility of the U.S. and Great Britain, not the Soviet Union. He points out that the Soviet government only established the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and its military forces after the Western powers created the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and began arming it. Similarly, the Warsaw Pact was formed only after NATO already existed. Hester also criticize... 
