A good portion of that was due to the knowledge of the Morgenthau, plan, but here, the utter destruction will come a bit at a time until surrender, not after it. They are quite different things.In our reality those same generals were very willing to fight to the bitter end and see Germany destroyed. In case you missed it, Germany lay devestated at the end of the war. It's cities burned to cinder and that did fuck all to encourage the Generals to throw in the towel.
If they had really cared about the well being of The average Germans they would have turned on Hitler and Co. And surrendered. Instead they fought until they were ground in the dust and hid behind the bullshit excuse of having sworn an oath.
That's if they're dropping bombs for sheer terror, but if they scratch a major industrial area each time, how long can Germany keep going?And that's the point. There's been nothing in this WI to change that so the Germans would resist as hard in this TL as in ours. Atomic Bombs don't change that because atomic bombs don't have the power to inflict that much destruction in any reasonable time frame.
If anything, the continued dropping of a-bombs only feeds into Nazi propaganda about Wallied plans for genocide. It doesn't significantly change the general's thinking. I genuinely believe it would take until the 50s for enough damage to be done for that to happen.
Of course, there are other ways too, like bombing Baku and Romania, starve the Germans of oil. In fact, economic warfare would probably work better than outright destruction, especially if other nations could be persuaded to allow allied troops onto their land.
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