“Hitler committed suicide for fear of dying.”

 

https://t.co/gXYFaqwcN5 ヒトラーの対米宣戦布告についての新刊。よさそう。

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) November 20, 2021

  On Dec. 11, in a speech before Germany’s Reichstag, Hitler announced his declaration of war on the United States. With this step, he chose a war that his country, already mired in the Soviet Union, could never win.

By Dec. 12, 1941, the world was transformed. One of the last surprises in this book is how many world leaders saw accurately from that moment how the future would unfold. “I feel a really miserable defeat coming,” said the recently resigned Japanese prime minister, Prince Konoye. In January 1942, Hitler admitted to the Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Oshima that he was “not yet sure” how he could defeat the United States. “The accession of the United States makes amends for all,” Churchill told his foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, “and with time and patience will give certain victory.” They were all correct.

t当時の基準からしても、負けるとわかっているのにアメリカに手を出したのはまずかったな、日本にせよ、独にせよ。