Hitler's biggest blunder. (declaring war on the US)

History Today | April 1, 1993| | Copyright

Why did Germany declare war on the US in December 1941? Nicholas Henderson considers motives and consequences in the days before and after Pearl Harbor.

Hitler's declaration of war upon the United States of America on December 11th, 1941, four days after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, was a turning-point in history.

According to Ribbentrop, his foreign minister, and Erns von Weizsaecker, State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry, Hitler believed that Germany and Italy were obliged to declare war under the terms of the Tripartite Pact. This had been signed ...

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