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What terms could the allies have offered in 1944?
The man who organized the meetings told me that during the battle he would wake up each day and just wonder if he would live the rest of the day; I bet feeling this way for a few weeks would leave an indelible impression on you.
Goran_K saysWhat terms could the allies have offered in 1944?
Doesn't matter because Hitler wouldn't have accepted any of the terms offered. They were still expecting their super weapons to turn the tide.
Doesn't matter because Hitler wouldn't have accepted any of the terms offered. They were still expecting their super weapons to turn the tide.
All these losses and the losses in the last 4 months of the war including over 300,000 Red Army troops killed taking Berlin might not have been necessary. Sir Winston Churchill is a fascinating man. He was a great political leader. He was a great writer. He was a great painter. He had served in the British Army as an officer both in the Boer War (South Africa) and in World War I as a major fighting in the trenches. He was a brilliant historian. He relied on his knowledge of the Romans and how they fought wars to come up with an unconventional idea. He calmly pointed out to Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt that when Roman armies knew that their victory was inevitable, they became magnanimous toward their opponent. They offered generous peace terms and a chance for the opponent to save face. Before this battle began, he suggested that the Germans be offered a generous deal to quit fighting. Stalin blocked this move. At the end, he was "hell bent" on grabbing as much territory as possible. Stalin was a psychopath of the highest order and the worst murderer in the history of the human race (67,000,000 deaths). He once made this comment:
"One death is a tragedy. Millions of deaths are just numbers on a piece of paper."