103 - Churchill and Roosevelt vow to destroy all Nazis - WW2 - August 15, 1941

by Panzer
No, they said destroy Nazi tyranny.
Yep, that is their specific wording - destroy nazi tyranny.
No, they don’t mention anything about Italy.
Okay.
August 15, 1941 This week, British PM Winston Churchill meets
American President FDR in Canada to hammer out a few things.
Do you suppose it will have any repercussions?
I’m Indy Neidell; this is World War Two.
Last week, German AG Center finally eliminated the Smolensk pocket, and took over 300,000 prisoners.
They have also surrounded two Red Armies in Ukraine and are preparing for a big push on
Leningrad.
The Japanese resumed their bombing campaign in China and made no headway with the US in
getting Japanese assets un-frozen.
Here’s what follows:
From the 9-12, Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Placentia Bay in Newfoundland with their
military staffs.
They agree to send strong warnings to the Japanese and that there is the understanding
that the US will almost certainly join the war if Japan attacks British or Dutch possessions
in Malaya or the East Indies.
They also send a message to Josef Stalin proposing a Moscow meeting so they can make formal arrangements
for sending supplies to the USSR.
The Atlantic Charter is the result of these meeting and is a statement of principles of
British and American policy, things like that countries should have the right to hold free
and fair elections.
It sets out reasons why the US might go to war and what the aims of such war making would be.
Point number 6, though, says that after destroying Nazi tyranny- specifically Nazi tyranny- then
they could create a lasting peace.
This, according to David Stahel, influences Hitler’s direction of the war, since if
Britain, and perhaps one day the US, will not accept limited war aims and would end
Nazi rule, then Germany’s lack of resources would be ruinous in a long war and economic
objectives in the Soviet Union must now assume a far greater importance than before.
You can argue what influence this meeting had on Hitler in the comments, but on the
12th, Hitler issues a supplement to his directive 34 from July 30th, 34A.
This supplement has several provisions; AG South is to gain a foothold east of the Dnieper,
prevent the enemy from re-grouping behind the river, occupy the Crimea, and occupy the
Donets region and the Kharkov industrial area.
Up in AG Center, “The most important task here is to eliminate the enemy flanking positions,
projecting deeply to the west, with which he is holding down large forces of infantry
on both flanks of AG Center.”