Best Possible German "Unconditional" Surrender

The Allied policy was unconditional surrender. Ok, fine.

Japan ended up surrendering "unconditionally" on the condition the Emperor remained.

My suspicion is that part of the reason for this was that the United States effectively controlled surrender negotiations whereas the German situation was far different.

That brings me to my question. While there is no plausible Allied victory in which Unconditional Surrender is not the policy, what would Germany have to accomplish to attach Japan-esque "conditions" to an Unconditional Surrender?

I don't think political changes in Germany, such as Himmler or the Wehrmacht taking power, would do a thing. So, that leaves the battlefield. What could the Germans REALISTICALLY accomplish on the battlefield, with a POD after D-Day and Bagration, against either the Western Allies or the Soviets, to obtain better surrender conditions?
 
*Possibly* a successful Operation Valkyrie, if that's within the POD. And it wouldn't so much be a surrender as a case where the Allies decided that the plotters were the legitimate German government after a civil war broke out, with final borders to be agreed upon by negotiation after the Nazis' surrender. However, given how authoritarian they still could be and the fact that even their minimum goals look ludicrous by Summer '44--i.e. returns of Elsass-Lothringen ludicrous--there would have to be substantial alterations to their demands. Possibly they could be allowed to keep Austria, in exchange for which they would otherwise have to return to post-WWI borders, if different personalities ended up in charge.
 
After? Nothing really. At best, keep more of Silesia and Pommerania. Another option is to throw everything on the Eastern Front, and suŕrender Berlin to Allies.
 
*Possibly* a successful Operation Valkyrie, if that's within the POD. And it wouldn't so much be a surrender as a case where the Allies decided that the plotters were the legitimate German government after a civil war broke out, with final borders to be agreed upon by negotiation after the Nazis' surrender. However, given how authoritarian they still could be and the fact that even their minimum goals look ludicrous by Summer '44--i.e. returns of Elsass-Lothringen ludicrous--there would have to be substantial alterations to their demands. Possibly they could be allowed to keep Austria, in exchange for which they would otherwise have to return to post-WWI borders, if different personalities ended up in charge.

They would request all of Sudets, A-L, Austria, Tyrol and rights to occupy Poland. Wtf?
They would have to retake France again, and stalemate Soviets at Vistula. With different Warsaw uprising it might be possible for junta to keep 1937 borders. And that's it. About Austria, Allies would restore its independence.

Valkyrie would most likely cause different post war Balkans. If Soviets get stucked in Poland as a result of new adopted strategy, as a result will emerge complicated situations in Greece and Yugoslavia.
 
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Germany's 1937 borders, plus or minus Austria (which seems rather unlikely) and East Prussia (which seems rather likely) seems like the absolute best case scenario as far as postwar borders go. Of course, this does not take into account issues of reparations or postwar occupation.
 
Japan ended up surrendering "unconditionally" on the condition the Emperor remained.
That was not a condition. It was something the Allies decided on. If the Americans had decided to hang the Emperor they could have done it. It might have soured future relations, but there was no treaty provision keeping the Emperor in place.
 
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