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Originally Posted by Snestorm
Quite a jail term, for a diplomat on a peace mission.
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Peace in this case would be giving the Axis a free hand in Europe, lets not forget that this happened about a month before Operation Barbarossa and while there was a stalemate going on in North Africa (six months before Operation Crusader pushes the Axis back in to Libya). Any peace with the Allies would have been a clear 'win' for the Germans at this point.