Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "Did the Allied policy of ‘unconditional surrender’ prolong WW2?" video.

  1. Today, even taking a couple of million prisoners is a German "failure". At least the Finnish Wikipedia is honest and says, Axis tactical victory..
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  2. Why would they do that? They would celebrate Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War and Birthday of Hitler and the birth of Hitler's mother.
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  3. That's not hindsight, but alt-history
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  4. Noting how racist the USA was in 1917, Woodrow Wilson from Georgia stabbed Germany in the face. Maybe Germany was too liberal for him?
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  5. Young people naturally have more energy and vitality. Carl Gustaf Mannerheim had a cyanide pill. As I recall, he was promised immunity in 1943. Helmut Schmidt survived the Battle of the Bulge. He was captured by the British in April 1945.
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  6. I was captured during a military exercise. The best lesson I learned. Better to take the bullet immediately than to suffer for a year and then be slaughtered by a mujahideen.
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  7. Yes, if the Anschluss had failed before they reached Vienna, but Hitler didn't have nuclear weapons. We are now bystanders and cheerleaders, just like the USSR was in 1964. They had about 3000 soldiers in Vietnam. I think we have less than 3000 soldiers in Ukraine.
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  8. "Unconditional" sounds cool until you meet Heinrich Severloh and regret your life choices. Likewise, SS-rottenführer Veikko Kasslin (1919-2021) was a machine gunner in Russia.
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  9. German propaganda or German facts? Would you change your life after reading something on the internet?
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  10. I would appease Hitler by stopping arms shipments to Britain. If that wasn't enough, I would send weapons to Germany. Dönitz would not sink his own ships, so that would guarantee peace in the Atlantic. The US had no colonies in North Africa, so I would ignore them. Also, I'm ignoring the Japanese mainland. Maybe I'll help the Philippines if I'm in the mood. In the worst case, Hitler invents a nuclear weapon and appoints Putin as his successor.
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  11.  @SoraTheHappyEmo  Another genocide is alt-history. Invasion was never a threat to countries like Canada or even Ireland.
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  12. I'm a realist. The birth control pill changed Germany. Austria was a neo-Nazi state until 1997
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  13. As I understand it, Italy was not occupied. Mussolini was lynched without trial because he didn't switch sides like the rest of the nation.
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  14.  @ericscottstevens  Because they surrendered at Stalingrad. Only 3402 Finns were captured and 1433 died in captivity. Probably some committed suicide before being captured, but I don't know the exact number.
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  15. Vichy was a dominion just like South Africa, so it didn't become a puppet state until 1942. I would argue that the Legion had its own interests (money). Practically a neutral country.
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  16. I don't think Dwight Eisenhower had the authority to change policy. William D. Leahy and Harry Truman promised to continue as FDR would have wanted.
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  17. Three points in no particular order: 1. The 20th Mountain Army froze in its positions for the winter of 1944-45, thus it was dissolved in Norway after Germany surrendered. 2. Wishful thinking about Czechoslovakia's transformation into a social democracy lowered fighting morale. 3. War fatigue, moonshine and prostitution ended FDR's legacy of strict economic policies, thus the far "right" fell out of favor. Also, the new legislation was fair compared to the Nazis.
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