March 2003 Newsletter

LETTERS

A reply to Manfred Jonas:

Professor Jonas seems quite clear in his letter about what is not true but, unfortunately, neither it nor his book are quite clear about why U.S. policy toward Germany changed so drastically in December 1941. Yet he is good company with every other historian that I have ever read on the subject. I might wish for clarity on this subject, but the overwhelming preponderance of ambiguity in the historiography is the reason I wrote my book and article. One might also ask why historians who are so thorough on most things are conspicuously not when it comes to the momentous and drastic change of U.S. policy toward Germany in December 1941.

- Richard Hill