Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Philo-Junius

Of course. The west could not allow status quo ante bellum. I imagine that a retreat to Versailles treaty borders and turning over the Nazi leadership probably would have done the trick.


77 posted on 12/26/2008 9:19:37 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies ]


To: Straight Vermonter

Those terms might have been acceptable to the American people, but, even if the conspirators had accepted them, the net result would only have been to move the Russian front 500 miles closer to Berlin. As in 1918, the Wehrmacht would have melted away or mutinied, as the unanswerable question would have once again been presented: who wants to be the last man to die in a war already lost?


78 posted on 12/26/2008 9:32:01 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson