Unconditional Surrender: The Policy That Prolonged World War II by Thomas Fleming

Author:Thomas Fleming [Fleming, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: HISTORY / United States / General
ISBN: 9781612301983
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2011-12-05T04:30:00+00:00

At Teheran, Stalin revealed his real intentions for Germany. They had little to do with the generous sentiments displayed by the Free Germans committee. The Russian dictator favored dismembering the country into four or five ineffective parts - and shooting 50,000 German army officers. Although the latter recommendation was made in a sardonic, joking tone, Churchill almost exploded, crying that the British people had always been opposed and always would be opposed to mass vengeance.

Roosevelt’s reaction alarmed Churchill even more. The president suggested a compromise - shooting 49,000. This feeble attempt at humor was lost on Churchill. The prime minister knew they were dealing with a man who had massacred more than 15,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest and nearby death sites in 1940. Roosevelt was equally aware of this grisly fact. Churchill had sent him confidential British evaluations of Nazi propaganda about the massacre, which concluded that the Russians were unquestionably guilty.

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