No formal peace treaty was ever signed with Germany to end WWII.
The opinion piece argues that only military surrender occurred in 1945 (with no political or state-level treaty), allowing core Nazi-era scientific, intelligence, financial, and operational networks to be absorbed into the postwar system; it claims the war’s structural phase continued for 81 years, with recent banking cleanups, sanctions enforcement, AMIA prosecutions, and transparency reforms serving as the de facto final settlement in place of a missing treaty.
No formal peace treaty was ever signed with Germany to end WWII.
The opinion piece argues that only military surrender occurred in 1945 (with no political or state-level treaty), allowing core Nazi-era scientific, intelligence, financial, and operational networks to be absorbed into the postwar system; it claims the war’s structural phase continued for 81 years, with recent banking cleanups, sanctions enforcement, AMIA prosecutions, and transparency reforms serving as the de facto final settlement in place of a missing treaty.