I am reading:
End of a Berlin Diary : 1944-1947 by William L. Shirer- Shirer returns to London, Paris, and Berlin in the aftermath of World War II.
At Sea, October 3, 1945
Eisenhower has kicked Patton out as a commander of the Third Army. Patton was great at war but a flop in peace. He had no understanding of politics or even of the significance of Nazism. General X. said tonight that our American generals simply were not fitted for the job of occupation, though I think he is one who is. He hopes civilians will take over actual control.
Berlin, Saturday November 3
What the German people soon regret, you will find, is not that they made this war, but that they lost it. If only Hitler had listened to his generals during the Russian campaign; if only he had’t declared war on the United States; if only the world hadn’t ganged up on poor Germany, they whimper, Germany would have won and would have been spared the present sufferings. There is no sense of guilt or even remorse. Most Germans you talk to merely think they have been unlucky….
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks 1941-1955 by Patricia Highsmith and Anna von Planta