That means that the Allied Powers, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and their allies, would not accept any surrender from the Axis Powers, Germany, Italy and Japan, that is contingent upon certain terms.
The unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.
The Unconditional Surrender
Unconditional Surrender
Truman inherited Unconditional Surrender from from FDR.
Unconditional surrender is absolute trust. It starts with acceptance of whatever happens in our life. That is the first surrender, surrender to the law of Karma, whatever unfolds is the reaction of our own past actions. We surrender to that without any question, trusting the law. Then comes surrender to what will be, when we hand over our life, our future, unconditionally. That is Divine unconditional surrender. We live without fear, or worry like a feather that surrenders to the air, like a leaf tossed on a river. So we must surrender.
The unconditional surrender of Germany
General US Grant did not always present his opponents with an "unconditional surrender". In the case at Appomattox Court House, Grant overruled General Custer's demand of an unconditional surrender. As an aside, President Lincoln had urged Grant to be lenient with Robert E. Lee.
Early in 1943 the Allies resolved to accept only unconditional surrender and not to negotiate terms. Unconditional surrender means what it says: a country surrenders and allows the victors to do as they please.
General US Grant was nicknamed "unconditional surrender" Grant
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Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant had the nickname of Unconditional Surrender. He was given this nickname as he requested the South to surrender unconditionally and immediately.