[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by monkey hanger

don,t think it was anything to do with money after the war. more like a fear of communism spreading further west that caused the industrial german base being brought back to life. probebly the same reason the yanks ploughed money into japan with a chinese threat nearby.

You are correct in that the Allies wanted to create a buffer zone against the USSR. The US did effectively the same with Japan but that was to stop the USSR again, they had designs and in fact USSR did not declare war on Japan until quite late in the war. The communists didn't complete the takeover of China until after the surrender of Japan and Germany.