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War Against America (from "The Lost Empire of the World") Hitler's blunder On December 11, the final catastrophe occurred.After four days of hesitation that frightened even history itself, Adolf Hitler summoned the Reichstag and declared war on the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not even mention Germany in his Dec. 8 declaration of war speech to Congress.And for good reason!The surging fighting enthusiasm aroused by his country is 100% aimed at the "shameful" Japan.As always, the cunning president is not an inch above the sphere of public opinion. During these anxious four days, some in our General Staff felt that the attack on Pearl Harbor might prove to us a major turning point in the war.It is conceivable that the United States would turn entirely from Europe to deal with Japan.Roosevelt's break

Stirrer's war pressure will be vented to the Pacific Ocean, and the "Lend-Lease Act" will be stopped.In this way, we will finally have a chance to breathe, hang Britain and bring down the Soviet Union, and then we can deal with the United States in our own time and way. However, the head of state was strongly pressured by Japan to "respect" the so-called Three Kingdoms Pact. convention turned into trap The convention is mainly a propaganda deception, like the "Steel Pact" between Germany and Italy.Japan joined the Iron and Steel Convention in 1940, So this became the Triple Pact, which gave birth to the phony world-famous "Axis Powers".This is a bluff.Italy equals zero.Japan wanted to use Germany to frighten the Americans, and Hitler wanted to use Japan to frighten the Americans.These two poor countries united in a treaty, hoping to paralyze a rich country between them to the point of immobility.

① Refers to the military alliance signed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in May 1939. Yet the earth is round, and in the other direction there is another powerful country between them - the Soviet Union.This situation is different.Germany and Russia were linked by Ribbentrop's non-aggression pact, so our diplomats included a clause in the Triple Pact that relations with the USSR would not be affected by this new pact. When we began our war against Russia, the Japanese found our clause a welcome excuse for avoiding their obligations.They cited this clause very politely, and their neutrality pact with Russia at the time, and they did not want to attack Russia.They said they would do so as soon as circumstances allowed—that is, until Germany was almost bloody fighting and victory was at hand.But Pearl Harbor happened, and the situation in the world was suddenly reversed; Japan now asked Germany to help it attack the United States, even though it had not previously helped Germany attack Russia.

It goes without saying that Hitler owed nothing to the Japanese.The Tripartite Convention stipulates that when any of the contracting parties is attacked by a third party, they have the obligation to assist each other.Calling the Pearl Harbor incident an American "offensive" against Japan is far-fetched even in Eastern rhetoric.Hitler certainly had the right to at least demand that Japan should declare war on the Soviet Union in exchange for reciprocity.News of this Japanese action will give an infinite boost to the morale of our troops fighting in the ice and snow of Russia.This will change the whole situation.

But Hitler never made this request.He kept Japan and Russia neutral while he himself threw the German people into war against the United States.With this bewildering blunder, the Führer threw away his historic victory and the future of his empire.Why? When the Führer went to Berlin to declare war, I myself was flying over the Moscow front for an aerial inspection.When I saw him again in Wolf's Lair in mid-December, he thought of America as a dandy and didn't give a damn.I was there at dinner one night, and he called America a half-Jewish half-Negro half-breed race, incapable of any major war.He said triumphantly that the United States was busy dealing with Japan and would probably be defeated.It has no chance of intervening in European affairs.That's what he said.But I believed then, and I still believe now, that all this was nonsense to please his subordinates, or self-deception.Unlike Japan's leaders, Hitler knew one decisive military fact about America: Do nothing to wake up and unite this chaotic, quarrelsome, extravagantly corrupt giant.But Pearl Harbor did just that.

This war is fundamentally a game of chess with people and countries as pawns, a contest between two wills and two worldviews.Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt have been playing this game since 1933.In terms of factories, population, allies, and natural resources, Hitler gave way from the very beginning, and that was factories, population, allies, and natural resources.These conditions forced him to resort to bravado and recklessness.Whereas the man in the wheelchair is able to play the pieces slowly and carefully, waiting for his opponent to defeat him with a poor game. Year after year, Hitler seemed to outdo Roosevelt brilliantly.His bloodless victories up to 1939, his swift conquest of Poland and Western Europe, and his stunning occupation of European Russia in 1941 turned the game of chess in his favor.Just as Adolf Hitler was about to checkmate, Japan raided Pearl Harbor.This was the opportunity Roosevelt had been waiting for.

I am well aware of the customary saying that Hitler felt that since we were in fact at war with the United States in the Atlantic, for the sake of prestige, he would declare war to bring Roosevelt down.Others even thought that declaring war on America was a clever morale-boosting move to distract public attention from our stalls and setbacks on the Eastern Front.But these speculations ignore the fatal weakness that we did not ask Japan to fight against Russia, as well as the wording of the declaration of war at that time.this lacks statesmanship The document was a long cry against Roosevelt out of desperation and rage.I have always believed that Hitler saw that the game had unexpectedly lost hope of winning, so he kicked the chessboard to the ground in a fit of rage.

german ending Other writers followed Churchill's statement and placed the turning point of the war a year later, and attributed it to three simultaneous events: Stalingrad, Alamin, and the landing in North Africa. At that time, there was a clear turning point on the battlefield.The real shift, however, was Pearl Harbor. ①A small town in Egypt, where in November 1942, the British army commanded by General Montgomery defeated the German army and made it withdraw from Egypt. There is no doubt that it was only in 1942, long after Pearl Harbor and Moscow's stymie, that we won the great victory and extended our short-lived empire to the astonishing furthest reaches.Our submarines have almost completely dominated the Atlantic Ocean, and have sunk the entire British and American fleets to the bottom of the ocean.Our troops marched into the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea and the Nile.Our energetic ally, Japan, has won its East Asian empire in a swift and brilliant victory.

But during all these victories one memory haunted me, and that was my air travel to the Moscow front immediately after Pearl Harbor.From the air I saw German tanks, trucks, and gun carriages trudging across hundreds of miles of desolate plains, frozen in mud and sunk deep in snow under the gloomy, low Russian sun.I saw dead horses lying in the snow, our soldiers hacking up their frozen carcasses with knives and eating their flesh.Our planes often landed among groups of soldiers, grown and young, shivering in their tattered gray-green summer uniforms, building fires under cars to keep engine radiators from cracking and gasoline from freezing. Sticky flow does not come out.I heard them complain endlessly about the lack of boots, thick socks, gloves, antifreeze, and an ointment that was said to turn binoculars on tanks.Once the telescope is frozen, without the ointment to turn it, the tanker is blind, unable to maneuver the tank and defend himself.Those shivering soldiers, wearing the women's fur coats and fur boas that Goebbels conscripted to transport to the front, were pitiful.

That trip of mine allowed me to see Moscow's jam balloons and flak fire.There I fully felt the pain of the excruciating pause; there I heard for the first time that we were at war with the United States again.I knew in my heart that this meant that Germany's end had finally come. After 1941, Germany was like a rampaging elephant with a bullet in the skull, trampling and killing its tormentors with all its strength before it fell.That bullet was Pearl Harbor. lost world empire I conclude my first volume of analysis of World War II campaigns with these remarks, and a summary of it is a matter of course.

General George Marshall, in his 1945 victory report, referred to Germany, Japan, and Italy as "three criminal states of wanton plunder."But if we were victorious--which is what we were very close to--the leaders to be hanged would be Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Mr. Marshall.The criminal states were supposed to be allies, massacring German and Japanese women and children from the air in an effort to preserve what their plutocrats had plundered over the centuries.Hitler did not order the bombing of Hiroshima and Dresden! There has never been a morality in the history of the world.Only violence and death can cause the evolution of the trend.The victors wrote history and pronounced their verdicts, and the losers were hanged or shot.In fact, history is a continuous series of hegemonic transformations according to the decay of old political structures and the rise of new ones.Wars are high-heat turning points for those transformations.War is inevitable; war will always happen; and the only war crime is defeat.That's reality, everything else is emotional bullshit. We follow Adolf Hitler from incredible victories to unprecedented catastrophes, from Pearl Harbor to the fall of Berlin, because he is the destiny of our nation.He was a romantic idealist, an inspiring leader, with great dreams of reaching new heights and depths of human possibility, and at the same time a ruthless strategist with an iron will.He is the soul of Germany.We are a nation of fantasies, and Hitler was the embodiment of German fantasies.If this fact is not faced squarely, the true history of our nation will never be written.He had his faults, including a definite penchant for cruelty, a certain ingrained petty-bourgeois vulgarity, an exaggerated estimate of his own military intelligence, and a notoriously regrettable anti-Semitic streak.These are the faults of this world-historic figure, but no human being is perfect. Translator's Note: Armin von Roon correctly uses Pearl Harbor as a watershed moment in his two-volume analysis of World War II campaigns.During the period covered in The Lost World Empire, a European war was fought with almost as much force as the First World War, so that Winston Churchill called it the continuation of the armistice, These two great wars combined into a new Thirty Years' War.But during this entire period, the United States did not participate.After Pearl Harbor, we were deeply involved in the war, so it became the first global war.But that's another story. A synopsis of Long's second volume, titled Cosmopolitan Destruction, has recently been published in Germany, analyzing German defeat and collapse, but without much success. His summarizing assessment of Hitler leaves out one or two minor points.This capable and resolute murderer used modern Germany as his instrument of massacre, and directly caused the deaths of between 25 and 35 million people; a figure that will never be accurately calculated.The world spent billions of dollars, maybe a trillion dollars trying to stop him.These deaths and this waste would not have happened if the Germans had locked this eccentric in a madhouse instead of raising him up as their revered leader and throwing all their strength behind him for twelve years.Hitler is without a doubt the worst liar, charlatan, saboteur and mass murderer in the annals of the world on the record of history.Long should have mentioned these facts among Hitler's shortcomings.