Why didn't Hitler declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbour to strenght"te war of the wite race against the yellow danger"?Something you could expeckt from an archeracist. Advantages:the USA:reinforcement of the "Japan first"(maybe "Japan only") lobby in their battle against the Rooseveltadministration,with his policy(already before Pearl Harbour) of "Germany first". The UK:no or less aid from the USA ,reinforcement of the Chamberlainites and of the imperialist (whose aim was:first the defense of the empire) Btw:why not declare the Mediterranean hostilityfree,so that the UK could reinforce her troops "east of Suez"? the USSR:no Lend-Lease(I know:it wasn't decisive but all helps),Stalin feeling betrayed by his allies and the Grand Alliance exploding . It was worth while .

Originally Posted by lljadw

Why didn't Hitler declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbour to strenght"te war of the wite race against the yellow danger"?Something you could expeckt from an archeracist. Advantages:the USA:reinforcement of the "Japan first"(maybe "Japan only") lobby in their battle against the Rooseveltadministration,with his policy(already before Pearl Harbour) of "Germany first". The UK:no or less aid from the USA ,reinforcement of the Chamberlainites and of the imperialist (whose aim was:first the defense of the empire) Btw:why not declare the Mediterranean hostilityfree,so that the UK could reinforce her troops "east of Suez"? the USSR:no Lend-Lease(I know:it wasn't decisive but all helps),Stalin feeling betrayed by his allies and the Grand Alliance exploding . It was worth while .

Germany would have no way to engage Japan, being "surrounded" by the Russians & G.B., even if he had wanted to.

The declaration of war would be symbolic,but would have great influence on the public opinion in the USA,there was a lot of indignation and hatred against Japan: no war with Germany would have as result no USA aid to Britain (the isolationists were only isolationists facing Europe and interventionists against Japan )

well he didnt have to declare war on japan, just break all ties with japan and support the US's decision.

Originally Posted by lljadw

Why didn't Hitler declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbour to strenght"te war of the wite race against the yellow danger"?Something you could expeckt from an archeracist. Advantages:the USA:reinforcement of the "Japan first"(maybe "Japan only") lobby in their battle against the Rooseveltadministration,with his policy(already before Pearl Harbour) of "Germany first". The UK:no or less aid from the USA ,reinforcement of the Chamberlainites and of the imperialist (whose aim was:first the defense of the empire) Btw:why not declare the Mediterranean hostilityfree,so that the UK could reinforce her troops "east of Suez"? the USSR:no Lend-Lease(I know:it wasn't decisive but all helps),Stalin feeling betrayed by his allies and the Grand Alliance exploding . It was worth while .

Because he declared war on the US. Germany (Hitler) declared war on the US before Congress voted war with Germany on December 11th, 1941.

Because Japan would never have declared war on USA without German help. They werent dumb enough to take on UK and USA by themselves. They thought that the German victory over the Soviet Union was a done deal and it would be Germany, Italy and Japan against the Allies and could fight them to atleast a draw and hold onto their pacific empire in indonesia and malaysia and that USA would sue for peace at this point.

War makes for strange bedfellows, now Germany was happy to have Japan fighting the Americans in the Southern half of the globe. Hitler wanted to win the war first then sort out the Races