--- "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please bear in mind that in World War II Germany > declared war on the > US first, not vice-versa.
Weinberg's a great historian, but there's been lots of work on the topic since then. Marc Trachtenberg has a book forthcoming on it, for example. Even then, though, we knew Germany declared war on the US at least in part because FDR was doing everything he possibly could to provoke such a war, including using the US Navy to protect British convoys that were being attacked by Germany (a level of deception, btw, that vastly exceeds that of any subsequent President). Had tensions between the US and Germany not already been so high, it is difficult to imagine Hitler declaring war on Dec. 8th - particularly given that he was under no treaty obligation to do so, as the Axis treaty only required that the countries involved support each other if they were attacked, not if they initiated an attack. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
