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==Morgenthau plan==
==Morgenthau plan==
The Morgenthau plan, authored by Morgenthau's assistant, [[KGB]] agent [[Harry Dexter White, called for the great industrial area of Germany, the Ruhr, "should be not only stripped of all existing industries but should be so weakened and controlled that it cannot in the foreseeable future become an industrial area ... All industrial plants and equipment not destroyed by military action shall either be completely dismantled or removed from the area or completely destroyed; all equipment shall be removed from the mines and the mines wrecked." The proposal looked forward to "converting Germany into a country principally agricultural and pastoral in character."
The Morgenthau plan, authored by Morgenthau's assistant, [[KGB]] agent [[Harry Dexter White]], called for the great industrial area of Germany, the Ruhr, "should be not only stripped of all existing industries but should be so weakened and controlled that it cannot in the foreseeable future become an industrial area ... All industrial plants and equipment not destroyed by military action shall either be completely dismantled or removed from the area or completely destroyed; all equipment shall be removed from the mines and the mines wrecked." The proposal looked forward to "converting Germany into a country principally agricultural and pastoral in character."
Secretary 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.
Secretary 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.