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Originally Posted by RickOShay
Unconditional surrender was demanded because the conditional surrender at the end of WWI was part of what brought about WW2.
I would not call it questionable at all, it is what all the allies agreed upon to demand from the axis powers.
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If you're referring to the treaty of Versailles.. there were no concessions made to the losers that I'm aware of. In fact I thought the lack of concessions was the reasoning that explains how WW1 created WW2.
I didn't mean questionable as in it was at odds with what the allies demanded (though I think I remember reading somewhere that some of the other allies that were heavily involved in the European war, were less enthusiastic about ending the Pacific war as absolutely as the US had planned)
I meant questionable in terms of what the agenda was. Defeat of Japan was all but imminent after all. US intelligence supported this view.