Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Why did the Wehrmacht Soldier keep fighting til 1945? #wehrmacht #ww2" video.

  1. It is very simple - unconditional surrender. Roosevelt was insisting on this, Churchill was not. Hitler was hoping for peace talks. The German Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge) was a last ditch attempt to split the western allied armies in two hoping it would bring them to the peace table. In late 1944 after the Americans reached Lorraine, the British on the Belgium-Holland border, the Soviet Operation Bagration and German cities being systematically obliterated, if the Allies approach Hitler for talks he would have talked and the war stopped. The allies seeing what happened with the Germans did hold Japan to unconditional surrender. They surrendered before massed allied armies were on their soil (well some Soviets were)
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