re: #146 Targetpractice

Even the assassination of Hitler is dependent on when it happened. Earlier in his reign and the war may have been averted or ended earlier with a negotiated peace that saw a return to status quo ante bellum. Late in the war and its unlikely that the Allies (especially Stalin) would have agreed to a negotiated peace and probably would have forced the new regime to choose between fighting to the last or making it easier for the Western Allies to occupy the whole of Germany before the Soviets got there.

Point was that Germany had to be totally defeated and occupied and have the Nazi ideology totally uprooted. Ditto with Japan and its military dictatorship.