Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Why didn’t Hitler End the War when he Failed to get the OIL of the Caucasus?" video.

  1. By the fall of 1944 Speer was the one driving the bus when it came to production and such. Goering wasn't completely out of the picture but he was already planning on life after Hitler. He was focused on plundering art and looting Jewish estates and he was more into shooting up than he was playing soldier. After Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, and Stalingrad his influence with the Führer was pretty much kaput. So you can take anything he had to say to his captors with two tons of salt. He was so deluded by that point that he was honestly shocked when Ike refused to meet with him as a brother officer. As to the question of why Hitler fought on, Tik hit it on the the head, unconditional surrender. Unconditional surrender was the brainchild of Roosevelt. He was convinced that the reason the war was even fought was because the German's didn't believe they had been whipped in 1918. Roosevelt believed the Allies messed up the end game by not marching into Berlin in 1919. He was determined not make the same mistake so he decided to make unconditional surrender the stated policy of the Allies. The Germans were going to know they had gotten their asses kicked this time around, no stab in the back nonsense was going to take root after this war. Stalin was all for it but Churchill was not. When Roosevelt pitched it to Churchill, Churchill argued against it, saying such a claim would make the Germans dig in and fight to the last man. He wasn't arguing for a negotiated peace with Hitler, he was arguing that if you made unconditional surrender a stated policy you took away any hope that the population might just quit on their own. Churchill thought he had talked Roosevelt out of it at Casablanca but then Roosevelt sandbagged him and blurted out that the only terms the allies would be willing to accept would be unconditional surrender. After that Churchill didn't have any choice but to go along with it and give the impression it was a joint decision but in reality he was pissed. It was also the point where the reality that Britain was now the junior partner began to sink in. By the time the Tehran Conference ended that reality was confirmed. Churchill knew Roosevelt was not a fan of the British Empire but he thought he could work him enough to soften his views. The problem was Roosevelt was the kind of guy whose views couldn't be softened and he understood that in politics as well as friendship, one person always has a dominant position. And if Roosevelt knew anything, he knew how to apply power. Roosevelt made good and damned sure Hitler would fight to the end. For his part, Hitler would have fought to the end anyway. He thought about how he would treat Churchill and company if he marched into their capitals, and said to himself, screw that. I'm not swinging from a rope for their entertainment. Unconditional surrender just guaranteed that his people would go along for the ride with him without a whole lot of prodding. Anyway, that is why that war was always going to fought to the bitter end, oil or no oil.
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