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Dec 11, 1941:
Germany declares war on the United States
On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States,
bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European
conflict.
The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although
Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan
that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was
uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan's attack on
Pearl Harbor answered that question. On December 8, Japanese
Ambassador Oshima went to German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop
to nail the Germans down on a formal declaration of war against
America. Von Ribbentrop stalled for time; he knew that Germany
was under no obligation to do this under the terms of the
Tripartite Pact, which promised help if Japan was attacked, but
not if Japan was the aggressor. Von Ribbentrop feared that the
addition of another antagonist, the United States, would
overwhelm the German war effort.
But Hitler thought otherwise. He was convinced that the United
States would soon beat him to the punch and declare war on
Germany. The U.S. Navy was already attacking German U-boats, and
Hitler despised Roosevelt for his repeated verbal attacks against
his Nazi ideology. He also believed that Japan was much stronger
than it was, that once it had defeated the United States, it
would turn and help Germany defeat Russia. So at 3:30 p.m.
(Berlin time) on December 11, the German charge d'affaires in
Washington handed American Secretary of State Cordell Hull a copy
of the declaration of war.
That very same day, Hitler addressed the Reichstag to defend the
declaration. The failure of the New Deal, argued Hitler, was the
real cause of the war, as President Roosevelt, supported by
plutocrats and Jews, attempted to cover up for the collapse of
his economic agenda. "First he incites war, then falsifies the
causes, then odiously wraps himself in a cloak of Christian
hypocrisy and slowly but surely leads mankind to war," declared
Hitler-and the Reichstag leaped to their feet in thunderous
applause.
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