Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "The REAL Reason Hitler Declared War on the USA" video.

  1. TIK has overlooked something important:- 1. Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Agreement. 2. Later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and declared war on the USA. This meant the USA had necessarily to declare war on Japan and retaliate. Due to the Tripartite Agreement, this automatically made the USA at war with Germany and Italy - the declaration of war against Germany being just confirming and clarifying the situation. It is very well documented that the USA was NOT interested in joining the European war. In Churchill's history of WW2, he explains at length how and why spent a lot of thinking time and haggling time manoevering, persuading, and begging the USA to abandon official policy and come and help. He eventually got the USA to supply arms by selling Roosevelt on the concept of explaining it as a freely entered commercial transaction - Churchill even said that the USA was free to enter into similar war material supply contracts with Germany (a la Switzerland & others) should the USA wish. Of course, the British Navy would have sunk any German freighters sent to collect such equipment. Not until the Japanese attack Pearl Harbour did the USA provide any military help to Britain apart from selling arms. At that point it was go go go. As TIK himself has alluded to, but then discounted, one should not confuse German propaganda with what Hitler and his upper echelon actually thought. You should note that when Hitler ranted against the Jews, he was largely being a politician and playing to his audience. There was in the 1930's considerable racist views in the German public (and in other European countries, eg Poland). In Germany there were 3 kinds of Jews: a) Getto Jews - living in virtually closed communities and contributing almost nothing to the German culture or economy. People didn't like that. b) well to do and rich Jews, controlling shops, pawn shops, and banks. This aroused jealousy. c) Jewish university boffins with international repute. Jewish culture encourages study and learning. This was seen as displacing non-Jews and an embarrassment. So when Hitler and the Nazis ranted or took action against Jews, they had considerable public approval. Disclaimer: I am by descent a German Jew. But, like many, my family did not suffer in the Holocaust etc, because 1) they weren't practicing Jews and blended in, with many non-Jew friends, 2) family members served in the German Army, 3) other family members had regular jobs. Something else to note: make of it what you will: Under the Treaty of Versailes, Germany was required to make regular large reparation payments Britain - this they did until Hitler stopped it. Where did Germany get the money, you should ask. They borrowed it from the USA. Thus Britain ended up with huge reserves of US dollars. Britain paid for American war material by using these $ reserves (contributing about 30%, and by lend lease (contributing about 70% & took decades to pay off.)
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