In your own view, what would a military Russia/England alliance of the 16th century bring to history?
Posted on 2009 under History | 2 Comments20 Jan
sue asked:
Thanks, but actually, I did not ask for the reasons of Nazi-Japanese alliance. I asked how the Nazi regime explained to the Germans themselves that they are now partners with an “inferior”, an Asiatic race. The Japanese like the Nazis were anti-Americans but Nazism was about a lot more, with race such a huge part of it.
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Thanks, but actually, I did not ask for the reasons of Nazi-Japanese alliance. I asked how the Nazi regime explained to the Germans themselves that they are now partners with an “inferior”, an Asiatic race. The Japanese like the Nazis were anti-Americans but Nazism was about a lot more, with race such a huge part of it.
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by anumber1cooks2000, on January 5 2009 @ 12:34 pm
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Hitler made a patronizing remark about the Japanese calling them “Honorary Aryans”.While characterizing their race as inferior, he was giving them credit for their military and industrial ambition.
by BethS, on January 7 2009 @ 9:37 am
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There were fairly strong German-Japanese ties before the rise of Nazism. The Germans were there when Japan opened to the West in the late 1800s. It became rather common for the Japanese to send officers to Germany for training.
During the Nazi rise to power, Japan was also becoming more & more militaristic, as well. There were actually a lot of similarites between these two powers. And I think it was the Japanese advocating an alliance more than Germany. While the Nazis would have considered the Japanese racially inferior, I think they couldn’t deny Japan’s military might by the 1930s. Maybe it didn’t fit nicely into the Nazi’s racial policies, but why make an enemy of a nation that could be a willing, powerful ally?