Yeah I mean I guess every war technically ends with a treaty or status quo ceasefire, but you’re skipping a lot of steps where all of the most egregious nazis were killed or captured first.
You don’t have to go as far as the Romans did to Carthage to demand an unconditional surrender through force.
I mean, the Paris treaty formally ended the war, it’s just that Germany wasn’t a signatory to it. Turns out if you kill enough Nazis, it doesn’t really matter if one signs your treaty or not.
Technically, the status of Germany was settled b by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, in 1990. That was certainly a negotiated agreement.
Yeah I mean I guess every war technically ends with a treaty or status quo ceasefire, but you’re skipping a lot of steps where all of the most egregious nazis were killed or captured first.
You don’t have to go as far as the Romans did to Carthage to demand an unconditional surrender through force.
I mean, the Paris treaty formally ended the war, it’s just that Germany wasn’t a signatory to it. Turns out if you kill enough Nazis, it doesn’t really matter if one signs your treaty or not.