A quick meeting with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau followed. For years Morgenthau had served as one of Roosevelt’s most trusted advisors and in fact had been Roosevelt’s neighbor in Hyde Park, New York. Like Roosevelt, Morgenthau was East Coast establishment, raised by a wealthy diplomat father and educated at the finest academic institutions (the Dwight School in Manhattan, then Cornell). Of late, Morgenthau had come under fire for his theories on how Nazi Germany should be handled after surrender—the so-called Morgenthau Plan, which would strip Germany of all its industrial
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Nazi germany slaughtered his people! While leaders did nothing
