The Western insistence on the unconditional surrender of its military opponents has its roots in a World War II strategy that backfired, making peace more difficult to achieve.
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The Wehrmacht in Their Own Words
By allowing the German soldiers to speak, historian David Harrisville helps us to see World War II through their eyes, almost sympathetically. Many were devoted Christians who saw the war as a struggle against "godless" and "inhumane" Soviets.