[xdennis]

> Honest question. Why should they surrender?

To save the people they claim to protect. Just like in WW2, had the Germans and the Japanese surrendered earlier, the Allies wouldn't have had to kill so many of them.

[KingMob]

That same logic applies in reverse, though, so it can't be the answer.

If the Allies surrendered to the Axis, it would have also saved lives.

[Manuel_D]

No? Hitler explicitly laid out a plan to expel and starve much of Eastern Europe.