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Why did Hitler so readily dismiss the United States as a nation with no racial purity and thus no fighting strength when he saw firsthand the effect the U.S. had in WWI, particularly​ during the Spring Offensive? Was it just arrogance?

by /u/IASIPFL in /r/AskHistorians

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