Hitler - Japan must be encouraged to attack

5th March 1941: Hitler sees a future war in which America will be too stretched to continue supplying aid to Britain

Signing ceremony of the Tripartite Pact of the Axis Powers; seated at the front left (from left to right) are Ambassador Saburō Kurusu (leaning forward), Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, Adolf Hitler (slumped in his chair) and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop (standing). September 1940.

Many people in Europe, including in the British government, believed …