re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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.

Oh, it’s a fair point. Thing is, unless a true-believer like Himmler or Reinhardt came to power, the most likely replacements were either decorated generals or aristocrats. Such men would have been quick to denounce the Nazi regime and blame it for the pointless war the nation found itself in.

The same really can’t be said for Japan, as while men like Adm. Yamamoto saw the futility in a prolonged war with America, they had too much pride wrapped up in the whole venture to have backed down. Once the die was cast, the outcome was inevitable. The end may have been shortened or prolonged by certain events, but America would never have conceded the South Pacific to Japan.