David T. Beito

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And it dragged on and on and on.

The negotiations dragged on and on.

And meanwhile,

The Germans poured their troops into the Italian peninsula and we get Anzio and we get that slog north

because the Germans had time to fill that vacuum.

And of course, later, we had Tom Cruise, which was about it.

There were various plots to overthrow Hitler.

What was the big impediment to the success of those plots?

It was the doctrine of unconditional surrender.

Because FDR had the attitude that all these generals who we had a stereotype, they were all Prussians,

which wasn't true, that they're just as bad as Hitler.

They went along with Hitler.

They allowed him to come to power.

We're going to sweep it all aside.

So there was no willing to negotiate.

negotiate.

And as Eisenhower said, okay, that's going to make the enemy fight on harder.

And, you know, we have variations on that.

One aspect of unconditional surrender was the unwillingness to negotiate with restive Axis powers like Hungary and Romania about saving Jews.

And that's very much part of the same doctrine.

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