Germans would have been more than happy to surrender to the Americans.
“Germans would have been more than happy to surrender to the Americans.”
Possibly.... but they hadn’t yet fully demonstrated that. Anyway, they deserved no special consideration at that point after their rapey murderous genocidal rampage in the east, the death camps, etc. We shouldn’t have risked a single American GI’s life in the interest of protecting Germany from Russian revenge. Ike saw that.
Besides, we got Bavaria and the Rhine areas. We got the cool stuff.