 A. J. P. Taylor claimed that Mantoux had "demonstrated that the Germans could have paid reparations, without impoverishment, if they had wanted to do so; and Hitler gave a practical demonstration of this when he extracted vast sums from the Vichy government of France".He also said that "The Carthaginian Peace" demolished Keynes' thesis.Stephen A. Schuker claimed that Keynes' "tendentious but influential" book was "ably refuted" by Mantoux.