Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation
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Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation

Why Germany Declared War on the United States

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eBook - PDF

Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation

Why Germany Declared War on the United States

About this book

Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months, Klaus H. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German leader to declare war on the United States in December 1941. 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. 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. This move may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but would ultimately doom the Third Reich.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Maps
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. List of Abbreviations and German and Russian Terms
  13. Introduction
  14. 1 Hitler’s Pre-War Assessment of the United States and Japan
  15. 2 Hitler’s Physical Health in Autumn 1941
  16. 3 ‘All Measures Short of War’: the German Assessment of American Strategy, 1940–1941
  17. 4 Forging an Unlikely Alliance: Germany and Japan, 1933–1941
  18. 5 Facing the Same Dilemma: the US and German Quest for Rubber
  19. 6 The Crisis of the German War Economy, 1940–1941
  20. 7 The End of Blitzkrieg? Barbarossa and the Impact of Lend-Lease
  21. 8 The Battle of the Atlantic
  22. 9 The Luftwaffe on the Eve of Global War
  23. 10 The Holocaust
  24. Conclusion
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index