Ep 36: Charlie Laderman on Hitler’s Decision to Declare War on America

School of War · Jul 12, 2022 · 59m

Charlie Laderman, lecturer at King’s College London and co-author of Hitler's American Gamble, joins the show to talk about his latest book, which covers the crucial days between the attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s perplexing declaration of war on the United States.

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• 01:52 Introduction

• 02:50 Wasn’t War Inevitable?

• 07:12 Japan And Germany - Strange Bedfellows

• 11:10 Hitler’s Blurred Vision

• 14:45 Japan - Will They, Won’t They Attack

• 15:51 Churchill’s Outlook

• 22:58 Anti-Interventionist Sentiment

• 26:57 Anti-Semitism

• 31:18 Roosevelt Sees Things Clearly

• 35:21 A War…