He did this because he didn't want history to repeat itself. He feared that the same thing that happened with the Treaty of Versailles would happen again. <span />
President Truman does not want to place harsh reparations on Germany because:
President Truman believed that the united states should <u>support the free people</u> who are standing firm attempted repression by the armed minorities or by the outer world pressure.
Placing harsh policy on Germany may result in<u> another war with Germany </u>as everyone knows what role the treaty of Versailles played.
According to the Truman doctrine, the United States would support free peoples resisted takeover by the new threat of communism.
