If Hitler hadn’t declared war on the US, he stood a chance of beating the Soviet Union, or at least securing a negotiated truce.
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I watched a war documentary recently (I’ve watched so many in my life!) and this one had George Will (I know, *sshole) saying that Adolf Hitler “in a fit of thoughtlessness and contempt, declared war on the United States”.
I liked his wording there. A fit of thoughtlessness and contempt.
“A fit of thoughtlessness and contempt.”
Sounds kind of like Nancy Poolosi.
The point of declaring war on US was to have Japan follow suit and declare war on USSR.
December 1941 was a time when Hitler’s blitzkrieg failed in Russia and transformed into an attrition war Hitler knew Germany wasn’t geared to wage much less to win.
The Japanese were smarter than the Germans and it didn’t work.
All in all Hitler’s declaration was symbolic. De-facto US already were at war against Germany.