he began new negotiationegotiat dulles. those talks dragged on for several weeks and misadventures and false starts happeneded but they agreed to surrender on may 2nd and dulles was pretty fired up about it. he achieved quite a feat. fortunately, a lot of the acomp -- accomplishments diminished when they surrendered. but he refused to destroy at italian artwork and factories because he was talking to dulles and it ended five days early is probably saved thousands of liv lives. dulles stayed on after the war but his heart wasn't really in it. he kind of disagreed with american occupation policy. the americans laid down very strict rules that barred anybody who had been aoegs association associated with the nazi party from participating in the government. and dulles didn't agree. his prime concern was the soviet union and wanted to make sure germany got back on its feed and you had to turn to ex-nazis to achieve that was the price you had to pay. he once said you cannot even make the train run on time in germany without the he