What If Germany never declared war on the US?

To get back on track in terms of the OP, one thing that is fascinating is if the US is still a non-belligerent deep into 1942-43, American public opinion and congressional opinion might become more and more in favor of not declaring war on Germany, if Germany's military situation gets weaker and weaker.
Much of the growth of pro-war sentiment in the US was a response to German military success. If Germany is seen as potentially losing, and clearly after Stalingrad and other reverses against the Soviets this impression will grow, support for US entry will hardly grow, I would think.
Another factor is if the US is still not at war by early 1943, we'd have a new US congress seated, and such a congress had more GOP members in OTL, and likely would in this scenario.

rob in cal

Its definitely a possibility, especially once the Pacific war starts with dramatic Japanese successes and it becomes clear that Germany isn't going to smash Russia. Although that only really starts to become reasonably clear to the western allies after Kursk.

I think America will still send material aid to Britain and Russia because its in their interests to see Germany defeated but there could well be a coalition of groups arguing that 'the Pacific is our war'. Doubtful if they wouldn't come into the European conflict at some point even if Germany played a far superior diplomatic game than OTL but even a delay of 6-12 months might have some big impacts. Especially for the Soviets as it delays considerably an allied presence on the continent to take further pressure off. In the short term Britain might be somewhat better off as you don't have the very costly 2nd happy time but what happens after that would very much depend on how the assorted nations adjusted to the changed situation.

Quite right that we have rather got distracted from the original purpose of this thread.

Steve
 
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