[世界史の理解]
2023年07月30日
History of Americo-German relations (1)(2) Dec. 1941
Looking at the actions of Nazi Germany, planning and unplanning live together. The start of the war against the United States in December 1941 can be said to be typical of that. The instructions of OKW to Marshal Keitel and General Jodl after the opening of the war against the United States are also inconceivable as a plan from the beginning, and it was "First of all, consider where the United States will put its forces." In response to pointing out that Japan did not participate in the war at the beginning of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union and insisted that it was unnecessary to start a war against the United States, Hitler refuted that the Tripartite Alliance would die, and as he said to himself, "Japan is a country that has never lost in 2000 years." By the way, Hitler had some knowledge of Western history, but judging from these words, it seems that the knowledge of Japanese history is not enough. " It depends on how you interpret "lose", but in terms of battle, the dictator doesn’t seem to know the naval battle of the White Village River in 663, and in terms of war,Bunroku-Keichou War against the Korean Peninsula by Hideyoshi Toyotomi,meaning that the two invasions failed without taking control of Tsushima Strait due to the success of admiral Lee Sun-Sin.The Jewish extermination was impossible due to the continued war of Britain, and it became the direction of extinction, but after trial and error, it was decided that it was with a kind of pesticide of Cyclon B and the failure of the Moscow occupation almost overlapped, so it was planned and unplanned. Treasury Secretary of the United States,Morgenthau , the most influential Jewish person in the Roosevelt administration, was the hardest-line against Germany and insisted on the agricultural nationalization of Germany, but when the war against the United States began, it could become a reality. He gave up the world conquest and changed his goal to the second goal of the extermination of the Jews, and it became a competition between occupation of Berlin by the Allies and genocide of Jews by Germany.