Why Did Japan Join the Nazis? (Given, You Know, the Nazis Explicitly Hated Non-Aryans)

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  @Kainlarsen · 3 years ago

  They may not have had any problem with the Jews, but they had plenty of cruel disdain for Chinese.

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• TH

  @ThePatxiao · 3 years ago (edited)

  <b>Germany and Japan team up desperate to not get the USSR and USA into their wars</b><br>Germany &nbsp;<b>Invades USSR</b> <br>Japan &nbsp;*attacks the USA*&apos;<br>Truly one of the military alliances of the time

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• H.

  @h.a.9880 · 3 years ago

  An interesting tidbit of information: In Nazi Germany, there was a regularly published journal called something to the effect of &quot;Reports from the Reich&quot;, that also featured a lot of content regarding Imperial Japan. This publication praised Japan, their traditional culture, rich history, pure mythology, homogenous society, cult around their leader (Tenno) and (of course) their successful military conquest of Asia so much, the higher-ups told them to dial back their praise for Japan, otherwise it might have negative effects on the German self-perception. There was a note that told the writers to beware making the Japanese look like &quot;Germanen im Quadrat&quot; (verbatim: <i>Germans to the square,</i> ie: more German than the Germans).<br><br>Basically, Japan was everything Germany aspired to be: A unified, homogenous society with a strong mythology &quot;untainted&quot; by outside influence, tradition deeply woven into the everyday life, a strong military leadership with a cult of personality for a single &quot;leader&quot; and so on...

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• BE

  @BeukendaalMason · 1 year ago

  &quot;Our only allies are the Japanese, and if you ask me they don&apos;t look very Aryan....&quot; - Yorkie, Jojo Rabbit

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• TA

  @taylorlibby7642 · 3 years ago

  Both governments were incredibly racist. It was an alliance of convenience because their spheres of influence didn&apos;t really interact. &nbsp;It&apos;s interesting to speculate about how long they would have stayed allied, and if they would have eventually engaged in an actual conflict, if they had won.

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• TR

  @Tralfazz74 · 3 years ago

  It just hit me-- the number of flags that had to be destroyed after WWII was truly monumental

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• WA

  @WasabiSniffer · 3 years ago

  &quot;We&apos;re allies with the Japanese now, but between you and me, they don&apos;t look very aryan.&quot; Yeah, Jojo Rabbit summed it up pretty well

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• JB

  @jbtyu · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIIeBgYrLU&amp;t=298">4:58</a> UN didn&apos;t exist then. It must have been the League of Nations

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• SH

  @Shogata80 · 3 years ago

  My father who is 100% Japanese, grew up in Japan during WWII. Came to the United states in 1949, finished high school and promptly got drafted into the Korean War. 3 years later met a Jewish woman, my mother. They spoke of a kinship and understanding that not many other people could understand. They were together until she died, 62 years

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  @JossCard42 · 3 years ago

  I remember reading about the Japanese side of the war and how hotly debated a strike on the US had gone back and forth between the generals. Half understood that they didn&apos;t have the resources to weather an attack if they poked the sleeping bear, but the other half were more or less blinded by their own massive strength (they had been dominating their expansion efforts through a combination of overspending resources and going largely conquering underdeveloped islands and coastal regions) and believed that they couldn&apos;t be defeated. This came to a dangerous intersection when one of the generals suggested that the US would only respect Japan as an equal nation if Japan showed them a demonstration of strength first. <br><br>&quot;If you are walking down a path and you come up to an American, he will not respect you for stepping aside. He will look down on you because you are servile and apparently know your place. If you want respect from an American, you stand your ground and bloody his nose.&quot; In some messed up logic, the high brass thought that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would only help the negotiations with the US. Or at least that was the argument they used. It&apos;s telling how quickly they were being made when the Japanese Ambassador in Washington at the time only received news of the impending attack a few hours before it happened; he&apos;d left with the assurance that the decision to attack would be made depending on how his talks went.

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  @matthewhuszarik4173 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Germany’s and Japan’s alliance of convenience wasn’t nearly as bizarre as the Western allies alliance with The Soviet Union.

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  @shardj5151 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIIeBgYrLU&amp;t=750">12:30</a> the fake &quot;old damaged image&quot; filter that doesn&apos;t move with the camera panning is so funny to me

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