Book contents
- Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation
- Cambridge Military Histories
- Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and German and Russian Terms
- Introduction
- 1 Hitler’s Pre-War Assessment of the United States and Japan
- 2 Hitler’s Physical Health in Autumn 1941
- 3 ‘All Measures Short of War’: the German Assessment of American Strategy, 1940–1941
- 4 Forging an Unlikely Alliance: Germany and Japan, 1933–1941
- 5 Facing the Same Dilemma: the US and German Quest for Rubber
- 6 The Crisis of the German War Economy, 1940–1941
- 7 The End of Blitzkrieg? Barbarossa and the Impact of Lend-Lease
- 8 The Battle of the Atlantic
- 9 The Luftwaffe on the Eve of Global War
- 10 The Holocaust
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2021
- Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation
- Cambridge Military Histories
- Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and German and Russian Terms
- Introduction
- 1 Hitler’s Pre-War Assessment of the United States and Japan
- 2 Hitler’s Physical Health in Autumn 1941
- 3 ‘All Measures Short of War’: the German Assessment of American Strategy, 1940–1941
- 4 Forging an Unlikely Alliance: Germany and Japan, 1933–1941
- 5 Facing the Same Dilemma: the US and German Quest for Rubber
- 6 The Crisis of the German War Economy, 1940–1941
- 7 The End of Blitzkrieg? Barbarossa and the Impact of Lend-Lease
- 8 The Battle of the Atlantic
- 9 The Luftwaffe on the Eve of Global War
- 10 The Holocaust
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On 3 January 1942 Ambassador Oshima paid his second house call on the German dictator in fewer than three weeks. Hitler’s fondness for the Japanese envoy notwithstanding, such a minimal gap between two visits was unheard of and could only be justified by the need to brief the new Far Eastern ally on some unforeseen event. As was to be expected, much of the time the two men spent in conference was an attempt by the dictator to cover up the near-collapse of the German frontline outside Moscow. Hitler may have held the Japanese diplomat in high regard, but he still resorted to bare-faced lying to counter any rumours about the Ostheer’s crisis that may have reached the Japanese embassy.
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- Hitler's Fatal MiscalculationWhy Germany Declared War on the United States, pp. 543 - 549Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021