Message to H. Truman (Correspondence Vol. 2, No. 301)

Your message of April 26 received. Thank you for informing me of Himmler's intention to surrender on the Western Front. I think that your contemplated reply to Himmler, which calls for unconditional surrender on all fronts, including the Soviet front, is absolutely sound. Please act in the spirit of your proposal, and as for us Russians, we undertake to continue our attacks upon the Germans. For your information I have sent a similar reply to Prime Minister Churchill who had made the same inquiry.

April 26, 1945