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A comment on Hiroshima (1946). Parent comment

Re:Hiroshima (1946) by timuckun on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:21AM (#44794561)
AFIK they were looking for ways to surrender while saving face. They were using the Russians as the negotiators. The US didn't want that so they bombed instead.
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by throw0101c on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:39AM (#44797831)
> AFIK they were looking for ways to surrender while saving face.

They were also looking to keep all the land they had conquered.

If Nazi Germany was willing to surrender would we have been okay with it if they got to keep the Czech Republic, Poland, northern France?

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