When Hitler Learned America Would Never Negotiate...The conference room at the wolf’s lair fell into an uncomfortable silence on the afternoon of January 26th, 1943 as foreign minister Yookakim von Ribbentrop finished reading the communique that had been issued from Casablanca 2 days earlier. President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting at the conclusion of a major allied strategy conference in Morocco had announced to the world that the allies would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan.