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For this informal essay, use both the textbook's narrative of the post-war era as well as the speech by U.S. Army General Lucius Clay to German political leaders in September of 1945, mere months after the capitulation of the Nazi regime.
Prompt: Why would the United States and other victorious allies put forward this agenda (Clay's speech) for the post-war era? Why was the aim not to destroy Germany once and for all?