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>>15850268

Six reasons

1. The "Kristallnacht Incident" of 1938 when as part of the larger anti-Jewish pogroms, Nazi rioters attacked a group of Jewish asylum seekers standing outside of the Confederate Embassy to Berlin, triggering a full-blown riot that ended with Marine Embassy Guards volley firing into the crowd and killing dozens of people (nearly triggering both countries to declare war on each other right then and there). Even three years later, SS Chiefs Himmler and Heydrich were still seething at the incident and eager for a chance at revenge.

2. Adolf Hitler rubber-stamp approving a proposal by Himmler and Heydrich to attack Confederate consulates in the event of hostilities and authorizing them to do so without consulting the Wehrmacht

3. Widespread suspicions that the Confederacy was secretly using its embassies to wiretap German communications and are feeding information to Britain and Free France (which turned out to be true, but wasn't proven until after Germany lost the war)

3. Hitler's falling out with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who had cautioned against Germany picking a fight with any more great powers (mainly the Confederate States, United States, and the Soviet Union)

4. Machinations by Abwehr chief Wilhelm Canaris who sought to forestall war with the Soviet Union and America and by starting a war with the Confederate States (which he believed would be strong enough to give Germany a good punch in the nose to dissuade Hitler from initiating new conflict elsewhere, but not strong enough to wage a war against Germany entirely on its own).

5. The opening of a Confederate naval base in Malta, adjacent to its British counterpart which Germany perceived as a deliberate attempt at provocation

6. Widespread German prejudice against Confederates for their perceived philosemitism, having Jews in prominent positions of government, "Jazz" culture, and mutual Confederate prejudice against Germans that dated back to the 19th Century

>>15850268

Four reasons

1. The "Kristallnacht Incident" of 1938 when as part of the larger anti-Jewish pogroms, Nazi rioters attacked a group of Jewish asylum seekers standing outside of the Confederate Embassy to Berlin, triggering a full-blown riot that ended with Marine Embassy Guards volley firing into the crowd and killing dozens of people (nearly triggering both countries to declare war on each other right then and there). Even three years later, SS Chiefs Himmler and Heydrich were still seething at the incident and eager for a chance at revenge.

2. Adolf Hitler rubber-stamp approving a proposal by Himmler and Heydrich to attack Confederate consulates in the event of hostilities and authorizing them to do so without consulting the Wehrmacht

3. Widespread suspicions that the Confederacy was secretly using its embassies to wiretap German communications and are feeding information to Britain and Free France (which turned out to be true, but wasn't proven until after Germany lost the war)

3. Hitler's falling out with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who had cautioned against Germany picking a fight with any more great powers (mainly the Confederate States, United States, and the Soviet Union)

4. Machinations by Abwehr chief Wilhelm Canaris who sought to forestall war with the Soviet Union and America and by starting a war with the Confederate States (which he believed would be strong enough to give Germany a good punch in the nose to dissuade Hitler from initiating new conflict elsewhere, but not strong enough to wage a war against Germany entirely on its own).