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The Plan reflected wartime hatred of Nazi Germany, which had started and nearly won two great wars using its industrial base.  The alternative was to reform the German people, and that idea won out. The Plan was strongly opposed by Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]], by Secretary of War [[Henry Stimson]] and by the British and French because it would make Germans a perpetual enemy.  Hull said: "This was a plan of blind vengeance ... It failed to see that in striking at Germany it was striking at all Europe."  When the Americans did invade Germany almost their first act was, and needed to be, to work the mines to fullest production to aid the European economy.  Roosevelt and Churchill seemed to agree with Morgenthau at the Quebec Conference in Sept. 1944 but in October Roosevelt vetoed the Morgenthau Plan and it never went into effect.  

The Plan reflected wartime hatred of Nazi Germany, which had started and nearly won two great wars using its industrial base.  The alternative was to reform the German people, and that idea won out. The Plan was strongly opposed by Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]], by Secretary of War [[Henry Stimson]] and by the British and French because it would make Germans a perpetual enemy.  Hull said: "This was a plan of blind vengeance ... It failed to see that in striking at Germany it was striking at all Europe."  When the Americans did invade Germany almost their first act was, and needed to be, to work the mines to fullest production to aid the European economy.  Roosevelt and Churchill seemed to agree with Morgenthau at the Quebec Conference in Sept. 1944 but in October Roosevelt vetoed the Morgenthau Plan and it never went into effect.  

Nevertheless, it is used (to this day by) anti-American elements in Germany to attack America. {{citation needed}}

Nevertheless, it is used (to this day) by anti-American elements in Germany to attack America. {{citation needed}}

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