Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation
Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German…
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Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation
Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German leader to declare war on the United States in December 1941. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months, Klaus H.
Schmider sees the declaration of war on the United States not as an admission of defeat or a gesture of solidarity with Japan, but as an opportunistic gamble by the German leader. He provides new insights not just on the problems afflicting German strategy, foreign policy and war production but, crucially, how they were perceived at the time at the top levels of the Third Reich. This move may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but would ultimately doom the Third