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   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Markku Grönroos  wrote:   
      
   > "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   > viestissä:ddfr-1AF837.11563417082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > > In article   
   > > ,   
   > > holman@mappi.helsinki.fi (Eugene Holman) wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> > After the Russian defeat of the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad,   
   > >> > it was achieved by renouncing armed resistance.   
   > >>   
   > >> Obviously a wise move. It is always prudent to abandon a cause that has   
   > >> become hopeless. Germany refused to do so, and look what happened to it   
   > >> after the war.   
   > >   
   > > I thought Germany didn't have the option--that the allies had committed   
   > > themselves pretty firmly to unilateral surrender, presumably as a way of   
   > > preventing efforts by the Germans to divide them.   
   > >   
   > So the Germans couldn't surrender before the May 1945 because the Allies   
   > (the Soviets)  had committed themselves to something?   
      
   Couldn't surrender on more favorable terms then they ended up getting.   
      
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