Originally Posted By: Lilo


That sounds like a great "what if" post. The question is "which allies"? The Soviet Union wanted payback and an end to the Nazi regime in toto. They wouldn't have accepted any sort of separate German peace deal with Great Britain and the US. By the time of the plot the Russians were already in the process of clearing the Germans from Belorussia, the Ukraine and Poland.


Alot of those plotters shared this idea, even espoused by desperate (delusional) top Nazis in the last days of the war, that somehow they could deal an armistice with the Western powers and then team up to fight the Bolsheviks.

Putting aside the sillyness of such a notion, the West in 1945 quite frankly didn't have the heart, hunger, and strength to fight the Russians which perhaps is a good reason why the Soviets won Eastern Europe at Yalta.

Or maybe a negotiated peace isn't so impossible with Hitler-less Germany. We must remember Japan accepted surrender when the West allowed them to retain their Emperor as Head of State because we thought it was an acceptable price to end that damn war.