. >> george pearlstein. i'm afraid part of the question has to be taken up. i was interested in whether germany was instrumental in urging japan to enter the war and i was curious, did they know that japanese were going to attack or any of the details of the? after the attack america declared war but not against germany. there was a period of five days or so when it wasn't clear what was going to happen and there was even some thought that it might be beneficial for hitler to not declare war and see what happened. that didn't happen but i do know the details of those few days and did the germans urged japan to do this? >> not as far as i know and i doubt if they knew. one of the mysteries of world war ii is why hitler decided to declare war on the united states which be didn't actually have to do but maybe hitler was an honorable man. [laughter] and thank goodness he did he cause that made it very easy for roosevelt to get into the european war so when churchill was given the news of i think a late night dinner, he said he was -- it wasn't the first night he