During 1944 Henry Morgenthau involved himself in U.S. foreign policy , together with his associate Harry White he formulated the Morgenthau Plan . For the sake of permanently eliminating German war potential the plan advocated amongst other things German territorial dismemberment , partitioning , and deindustrialization . The plan was agreed upon by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt at the Second Quebec Conference . Leaks to the press about the plan led to Roosevelt denying the existence of the plan . Nevertheless , the plan strongly influenced early US occupation policy , and through the Potsdam agreement also early Allied occupation policy
Second Quebec Conference
Second Quebec Conference
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