Answer:
President Truman does not want to place harsh reparations on Germany because:
- President Truman believed that the united states should support the free people who are standing firm attempted repression by the armed minorities or by the outer world pressure.
- Placing harsh policy on Germany may result in another war with Germany 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.