Inventor wrote:
And he did lose much better than the generals could have, another six months, Germany would have been overrun by France!
As it was afterwards custom (I am austrian.) to bring food from the british, france and US occupied sectors of Germany and Austria, to the relatives forced to live in the russian occupied sector to prevent them from starvation, being completely occupied by france seems to would have been of an advantage, and would have as well prevented the separation of Germany afterwards.
I do not exactly blame the russian for their specific cruelty in that war, as you mentioned yourself as people of lower worth, in opposition to the other allies, the population of the eastern countries were treated by the germans in a very bad way. But the guilty persons of both sides, that commited the crimes are almost all dead or short before death now. So I see no reason in nowadays generation blaming each other, for what neither of them had done personally.
I simply wanted to mention, that there definitely would have been a benefit for germans, if they would have been able to withstand at least at the eastern border, and having surrendered only to the western allies, that had less causes for revenge. The differencies between the different occupied zones were that big that our grandaunt, that was living in the non-russian occupied zone of Austria, still tends to plague us with gifting us with groceries, when we visit her. (*sarcastic* "Thanks grandaunt. We would not know, how to manage the next weeks, if you would not support us with eggs, sugar, potatoes and flour regularly, when we visit you. As you might know, 58 years after the russians gone, that stuff is still not available in our supermarkets of the further russian occupied zone. O_o" )