Germany to Japan

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Germany to Japan

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Post by jtek » 08 Jan 2004, 06:00

What were Germany's political stances with Japan? Why did Japan fight alongside Germany?
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Post by hauptmannn » 08 Jan 2004, 17:05

They were both a dictatorship and they had anti communist attitudes as well.
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Post by varjag » 11 Jan 2004, 13:57

jtek wrote:What were Germany's political stances with Japan? Why did Japan fight alongside Germany?
I don't think they fought alongside - they fought paralel. Germany hoped that Japan would help them defeat Russia - which they did not. Japan hoped that Germany would defeat England, so they could grab SE Asia - which they did not. After that was settled - one disappointment in Tokyo was matched by one in Berlin every time - until final defeat for them both. They never had a common strategy or aims.
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Post by jtek » 12 Jan 2004, 04:53

Do you have a website that I can look at?
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Post by Cantankerous » 27 May 2020, 02:30

Did the Japanese militarists ever root for Hitler to be elected chancellor of Germany, since Hitler, like the Japanese militarists, though that territorial conquest could help ameliorate the global effects of the Great Depression?
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