rightwinger
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Again ...what do you do about the concentration camps?I doubt if it would have matteredHitler was absolute dictator....those who thought they could negotiate around him ended up quite deadHow do you move Soviet zones back when they are occupying them?
The German High Command consisted of Adolph Hitler. Anyone who thought otherwise found themselves dead
Plenty of ways. That's what diplomacy is for.
THe German High Command was a lot of people. Some of them were prepared to kill Hitler even in the real history when the Allies were clear they would never negotiate.
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So it is reasonable to think that if negotiation was on the table, that more would have been open to such a move.
Those who plotted to kill Hitler also ended up dead along with their families and anyone remotely associated with him. The Gestapo was quite thorough in that area
Even in a reality of Unconditional Surrender, there were enough Germans in the High Command to try a coup, in the hope of a Conditional Surrender.
If a negotiated surrender was actually a real option, do you think the plotters would have had an easier time gaining support or a harder time gaining support?
But what "terms" would you have offered? Would you have let them keep their concentration camps?
YOu don't think that it would have mattered that their stated policy goal was actually on the table as opposed to being publicly ruled out by their enemies?
IMO, the fact that there might have been actual encouragement from the US, would have had nothing but positive effects for the plotters.
My understanding is that there was a good deal of luck involved in HItlers survival.
A negotiated surrender in 1944 would have saved many lives and set the Soviet Occupation Zones far to the East, leading to a less scary Cold War.
Please. Obviously the first Condition would be de-nazification. And any group of German generals that were willing to kill Hitler would almost certainly be open to that.
Please don't stoop to Stat level games.
You do realize you are "negotiating" with war criminals. You sure you don't want unconditional surrender?