Eisenhower, after all, was a glorified puppet.
"Roosevelt and Churchill did not like the German resistance movement. They did not understand it. One is depressed to observe , in their respective wartime statements, the extent to which they both carried into the second World War all the prejudices of the first: how little they recognized the true lower-middle-class basis of the Nazi movement; how sure they both were that it was still the Prussian Junkers they were fighting -- and how seriously they misjudged this conservative class itself; how little they realized what resources of courage and idealism the sons and daughters of just these people, scourged by the consciousness of Hitler's degradation of their country, would succeed in producing out of their bewildered midst." Russia And The West, p. 367, 368.
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