In the Sept 2006 issue of World War II magazine, I read an article about a lost prison interview of Goring. He had talked to a Major Kenneth W. Hechler. The interview was quite interesting. There was one thing that stuck out though that got me thinking. Towards the begining of the interview, he was asked why did Germany declare war. Goring response was interesting. He said:
"I was astonished when Germany declared war on the United Satets. We should rather have accepted a certain amount of unpleasant incidents. It was clear that if Roosevelt were reelected, the U.S. would inevitably make war against us. This conviction was strongly held, especially with Hitler."
The answer goes on a little from here. What do you think? Do you think that Goring had 20/20 hindsight or do you think that he was just being nice his American captors? Hitler, in reality, never wanted war with the U.S. So, does this prove his paranoia?
2006-08-21
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