[BroJoeK]

“he also prolonged the war , refusing German offers to surrender.”

Ike accepted the surrenders of many thousands of German soldiers, and whole cities the allies liberated.

Any official offer of surrender by the German government, would go straight up the line to Roosevelt, later Truman. And to my knowledge, there were none.

And the reason is pretty clear. In their first war-time conference at Casablanca, in January 1943, Roosevelt laid down his terms for peace, just like Grant, it was “unconditional surrender.”

[M Kehoe]

Why did you remove my post #68. If I was out of line, please let me know what my infraction was.

Thank you.

5.56mm

[spanalot]

see post 82 and my others .

Insistence on “unconditional surrender” meant prolonging the war not by months but by years.

And the bottom line is that good men like Patton and Forrestal and McArthur and McCarthey were villified, western civilization was and is set back hundreds of years, and communists went on to kill 60 million more.