PoliticalChic
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2. If Roosevelt brought the war to a conclusion two years before it did, 135, 000 or more American soldier's lives would have been saved.
These are the facts that I presented.
2. If Roosevelt brought the war to a conclusion two years before it did, 135, 000 or more American soldier's lives would have been saved.
Time for deep thinking, here: who would have benefitted from extending the war until Germany was ground to dust? Right, Stalin.
And to whose detriment was 3-4-or 7 more years of warfare?
What was foremost in FDR's mind....saving the lives of American soldiers, or worming his way into the good graces of the homicidal maniac, Joseph 'Koba' Stalin?
It is easy to make the mistake of thinking America was at war with Germany for four years. 1941 to 1945. History requires the understanding of dates. War was declared by the Americans and Germans on Dec. 11, 1941. Only three weeks of 1941 were war dates. The Germans surrendered on May 7, 1945. Only five months of 1945 were war dates. The USA time frame for war was two and a half years in actual time at war with Germany. Start to finish, 2 1/2 years. The OP blames FDR for not shortening the war and ending it 3, 4, or even 7 years, in other words, before the USA was even in the war.
PoliticalChic insists that Roosevelt could have somehow convinced Germany to conclude the war and even surrender two years before the actual surrender took place. The problem with her claim is that two years before the end of the war is May of 1942. At that time. the Russians were in retreat. The allies were fighting Rommel in North Africa and in the Pacific, the US forces were being defeated by the Japanese at Corregidor and Bataan. England was being overwhelmed by the German air force and in retreat in Asia against the Japanese.
Once these factors are considered, it is easy to understand how ridiculous this misinformed PoliticalChic is. No one in the world was in position by themselves or as allies to demand anything from Germany. Germany was winning and had both the UK and the USSR on the ropes.[/QUOTE]
Watch how easy it is for me to prove you know less than nothing about the period:
Lest there be any doubt that the Stalin-Roosevelt policy of ignoring the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany would have ended the war earlier than May of 1945, consider this:
There was significant contact, by said resistance, with the British by 1938!
Remember the date of Germany's surrender? May 7,1945.
1938...' significant contact, by said resistance, with the British...' Seven years earlier!
How many dead and wounded Americans in those years
"During the 1938 crisis over Czechoslovakia that culminated in the Munich Agreement, Canaris was a leader of the "anti-war" group in the German government together with the army chief of staff, General Ludwig Beck, and the Foreign Office's state secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker. These individuals were determined to avoid a war in 1938 that it felt Germany would lose.
MI6 maintained contact with Canaris even after the Munich Agreement signed on 30 September 1938. When Winston Churchill came to power after the resignation of Chamberlain in May 1940, Canaris' hopes were renewed, given the new Prime Minister's strong position against Hitler.
It was decided to subject Canaris to a trial in an SS Summary court presided over by Otto Thorbeck with Walter Huppenkothen as prosecutor. He was charged with and found guilty of a variety of acts of treason or knowledge of treason going back to 1938. Canaris challenged the right of the court to try him, as it was not a military court, but the challenge was rejected. He was sentenced to death."
Wilhelm Canaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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