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Overreaching surely don't pay, but that's too easy to say in retrospect. At the time Pearl Harbor happened, Hitler was still the master of Europe. He'd conquered all of it except Russia in a frighteningly short time. Czechoslovakia and Austria fell without a shot fired. Poland lasted a month, France a few weeks, Benelux a few days. Up until Stalingrad, Hitler had a very good chance at winning the war.
Another good read is Richard Harris's "Fatherland". It's a murder mystery that takes place in Berlin 1964, BUT Hitler won WWII and the Cold War is now between the US and the Reich. Sounds far-fetched. But it's really not. It came very close to happening.
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