Hitler’s Pre-War Assessment of the United States and Japan

[Mortimer]

I think this is interesting, because when someone speaks of Hitler its usually only about Jews, or maybe about the Eastern Front, and Rapes of Soviet Soldiers, barely someone really knows what Hitler thought about US-Americans, notice that many US-Americans love Hitlers racial policies, because of his white supremacy, and they would hate on russians for soviet rapes, and such, but rarely any american knows what Hitler thought about their country

Hitler’s Pre-War Assessment of the United States and Japan (Chapter 1) - Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation

Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation - January 2021

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2021


Summary
This chapter intends to address how Hitler’s views on the US and Japan had evolved in the years prior to 1941. Despite the fact that his assessment of the USA in particular can be examined through a multitude of sources, many historians have chosen to limit themselves to a number of well-known value judgements from public wartime speeches. Unsurprisingly, these dwell extensively on the supposed “racial inferiority” of contemporary Americans and on the “Jewish influence” in the American centres of power. In similar fashion, his value judgement of the Japanese are usually reduced to his supposed “infatuation” with the Japanese warrior culture. A more extensive analysis of the available sources (speeches of the 20’s, records of private conversations, manuscripts from his own hand) quickly reveals a more complex picture. The Americans are regarded as the future rival of the new Germany, but also admired for their technological prowess, economic muscle and racist legislation. The Japanese, on the other hand are not accorded the same unstinted praise; his interest in them develops only in close synchronicity with every step Japanese governments of the 1930’s take which appears to indicate a lasting antagonism with the Anglo-American powers.

 

[Picaro]

Nothing interesting about sociopaths and closet homos like Nazis. They're all pretty much the same whatever ideology they hide under. Nothing admirable about them. And, American 'racism' is nothing compared to Asian and African racism. We don't see hordes of people from every country on the planet trying by the millions to get into Africa or Red China or Venezuela.

 

[whitehall]

Hitler came into power by arranging public events that denounced conditions related to the WW1 surrender treaty that humiliated Germany. Germans knew that America had weak leadership but had world class industrial power. The problem for America is that FDR had no idea of Hitler's power and apparently didn't care. The Nazi arms buildup persisted while the FDR administration pestered the U.S. ambassador in Berlin to demand WW1 reparations that would never come.

 

[Picaro]

How Nazis Tried to Steer U.S. Politics (Published 1997)

Current Senate probe of alleged Chinese attempts to buy influence with American politicians recalls Nazi Germany's efforts to keep United States out of World War II by giving money to isolationist politicians; Prof Gerhard L Weinberg cites June 1940 dispatch by German diplomat in Washington...

www.nytimes.com

The Nazis paid some 50 Republican isolationists to lobby against American intervention at their Convention in Philadelphia

Hitler came into power by arranging public events that denounced conditions related to the WW1 surrender treaty that humiliated Germany. Germans knew that America had weak leadership but had world class industrial power. The problem for America is that FDR had no idea of Hitler's power and apparently didn't care. The Nazi arms buildup persisted while the FDR administration pestered the U.S. ambassador in Berlin to demand WW1 reparations that would never come.

The U.S. had been paying the German reparations for Germany, and at very good terms. Republicans ran the U.S. in the 1920's. Hitler repudiated the debt when he was appointed Chancellor. Whitehall is full of shit, as usual. Germany in fact was the country that created the 'reparations' gimmick, when they beat France in the 1870's.

Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations - Office of the Historian

history.state.gov 3.0 shell

history.state.gov

Germany could have paid it, they just welched on the deal. France paid theirs in the 1870's, so they had a right to demand payment as well.

 

[Cassandro]

Hitler knew he had two years (1939-41) to deal with Britain and two more years (1941-43) to defeat the USSR. Until then, the USA wouldn't be a decisive factor in Europe. After that, he knew it would be game over.