Nazi & Japan?

Question

If Hitler wanted a pure white race to dominate, why was Japan an ally?

Answer 1

What Hitler really wanted was for Japan to start a Western offensive against Russia, which was never initiated. The Wehrmacht's strategy could be analyzed to conquor Britain, then head west to link with Japan making it difficult for the US to invade. Britain held a very important defense line.

Answer 2

Hitler was pragmatic enough to understand that Germans were not going to rule the world and he needed a second front when America entered the war. Toward the end of the war in Europe, he exported a great deal of weapon technology to Japan but by that time Japan's industrial base was destroyed or vulnerable. So much of popular history is made politcally correct and there is little understanding of what happened in Germany and how Hitler rose to power. For sure he accepted genocide as a policy but there was a great deal more to his ideas that are just as scary. When we see WWII history we also have it prefaced by the Holocaust and it does not explain how the German people were able to accept what was going on. German Jews were found at all levels of German society and co-existed, prospered and were revered for centuries. Germany was a technological marvel with great universities and philosophers, so how did such a cerebral society come to accept Hitler. If you suggest that there may be things to consider beyond the Holocaust, or what led to the event, you would be considered anti Semitic or racist and in that way we lose the chance to learn from this horrific period by our own self imposed narrowing of the era. I have no doubt that the Holocaust occurred, it is well documented but I also would like to be able to find out more about how this World War occurred and how a country decended into the nightmare that was wartime Germany. If we wish to learn from history we must study it.

Answer 3

I wasn't aware of them BEING an ally. The Allied Forces took on Japan because the Empire of Japan was trying to conquer the Pacific. Actually though most of the Allied forces were gone and letting America take on the Empire of Japan though. You may think that just because we took on Germany, Italy and then Japan that they were really Allies but I am not really familiar with that aspect.

Answer 4

Hitler allied Germany with Japan as a strategical block to the expansion of Western influence and power. He essentially wanted as many enemies of democracy as he could line up. He never wanted to invade Japan and he likely never would have done so. His invasion of Russia was a deep seeded hatred of Communism and a centuries old rivalry between Russia and Germany.

Answer 5

The Italians were an ally of the Nazi's as the Russians... The Germans just used them to help further their goal of world domination and would have tried to take them over like they did the Russians.

Answer 6

Japan also wanted power.. two different race with one goal.. power and purity of one race.