Video on the Morganthau plan to starve German PoWs: Other Losses: Eisenhower's Death Camps - A Film by James Bacque I know that as PoW camps were liberated the Americans were shocked to learn how the Germans starved the American prisoners and that here in the US rations were reduced for a while for the incarcerated German PoWs. The Red Menace caused the abandonment of the Morganthau Plan and the implementation of the Marshall Plan.