How Did Adolf Hitler React To Pearl Harbor?

The USS Arizona burns after being hit by a Japanese bomb while U.S. sailors aboard the neighboring USS Tennessee spray fire hoses to force burning oil away from their ship during the air attack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. U.S. Navy photo, National Archives collection

Pearl Harbor Day: How Did Adolf Hitler React To The Attack? -- Christian Science Monitor

At the time of the attack, Japan was already one of the Axis powers, but Adolf Hitler did not know of its plans. On Pearl Harbor Day, a look back at the Führer's response - and subsequent miscalculation.

Exactly 70 years ago Japan hit Pearl Harbor with one of the most stunning surprise attacks in history. At the time Japan was already one of the Axis powers, linked with Italy and Germany. Given that, how did the Führer, Adolf Hitler, react?

Hitler did not know of the Pearl Harbor plan beforehand. When informed in his headquarters on the evening of Dec. 7 of the strike and the damage suffered by US forces, he was “delighted,” according to British historian Ian Kershaw.

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My Comment: I asked my father on where was he when he learned that the U.S. was at war with Japan because of Pearl Harbor (he was in the Soviet army on the Eastern front during this time). He only found out about it a few weeks later, and only on the news that the U.S. was now at war with Germany .... a prospect that (naturally) gave relief to him and his fellow Soviet soldiers. As to Pearl Harbor, he learned more about it after the war was finished and he was curious about the Allied effort against the Axis powers.