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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (50937)	9/7/2006 9:34:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Possible mistake - It could be argued that declaring war on the US was a mistake but once the US went to war against Japan it was likely to declare war against Japan's ally. Perhaps you could call the initial alliance with Japan a mistake. I'd agree with all of that. But the Tripartite Pact was a mutual defense treaty- -it required Germany to do nothing if Japan started a war with the US. He was free to stay out. That ignores, of course, that FDR had already put the US at war with Germany. I figure Hitler did it just to make an existing situation official and so he could shoot back. Ordering an attack against the Soviet Union (arguably the biggest but if you think war with the USSR was going to happen anyway you could also try to argue it wasn't a mistake, but I'm not so sure I buy that one) Hitler said in "Mein Kampf" that he considered Eastern Europe, including part of the Soviet Union, as legitimate expansion room for Germany. Still, starting a war with Russia before defeating Britain was idiocy. No retreat orders for the Eastern Front (another good candidate for the biggest mistake) Can't agree. Once he attacked Russia with Britain still fighting, he was dead. The timing and preparation for the Eastern Front advance (delayed in order to provide forces to help out the Italians, also no winter gear for soldiers on the Eastern Front early on) That forced him into winter warfare he wasn't prepared for. The switch from having the Luftwaffe attack British air bases to having it bomb British cities. (Didn't crush British resolve and helped the RAF eventually win the Battle of Britain). Yep.