Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The REAL Reason Hitler Declared War on the USA" video.

  1. Roosevelt promised 50,000 plane per year production in May 1940, of which a substantial amount would be in the RAF. Plus UK production on top.  Germany could not compete with the level of aircraft at the UKs disposal. Whether the planes had US and UK pilots or just UK pilots they were coming Germany's way. The only way they could really get at each other was by air. Germany feared mass bombing, which came - the bomber in the late 1930s was perceived as a war winning weapon. This mass of planes had to be countered. The Germans knew the lead time for aircraft was 18 months from order to delivery. That meant in late 1941/early 1942, these planes would be starting to come into service in great numbers. Germany needed the resources of the east to compete. If the population was too big they would eliminate the population - the precedence was the American move to the west expanding the USA, taking lands from the native populations and Mexicans then eliminating the population. Hitler could do the same to his east. Prof Adam Tooze highlights this. The reason why Hitler attacked the USSR. This is not the key reason why Hitler declared war on the USA, but probably one of the key peripheral contributing reasons why. He could then attack US ships in the Atlantic loaded with planes to be used against him.
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