Nazi-Japanese relation...

 

Again, why bother supporting some "inferior race" half a world away? Wouldn't Germans want to keep the Asian powers to be scattered and divided for their later attack?

 

Originally posted by Sparten Same enemies, the British Empire and the States, and these are the two main adversaries of both as it turned out.

Seriously, what 'non-aggression pact'?

 

Germany, Italy and Japan signed the so-called Tripartitie alliance on September 17 1940, and Hitler at least considered the alliance to be a mutual defence pact, which is the ground on which he declared war on the US, after the US declared war on Japan, after the attack on Pearl Harbour.

 

Strategically it was mostly concerned with what should happen if the US intervened against any of the signers, though apparently the Japanese took their commitment to intervene if the US entered the European war less seriously than Hitler took his.

 

 

See also http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/waimilhist/1997/jl-folder/jl-p1.html

 

I think there is some confusion here with the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939.

Excellent point.  Realpolitik.

 

One phrase: Are you serious?

 

I don't think Germans were seriously thinking about Japanese support when they move into Russia. The best thing they could do is to bomb Port Arthur and freeze Russian fleet in the Asian bodies of water, but I don't see how that would help out the Germans. Most of the Japanese land forces were policing China, and Japanese generals would be reluctant about invasion against Russians. After all, they still remember how badly they were massacred when they moved into Mongol. And even if they push the Russians, they need to bypass freezing Siberia. Why do that when they could easily expand to Southeastern Asia? Most of the Asians hated European Imperialism and would welcome Japanese intervention, as they did in the beginning of Japanese expansions. Japanese soldiers are more suited in climate and environment in Asia rather than Northern Russian soil. The diplomacy between USSR and Japan was relatively better off compared to Japanese relations with USA and Britain. I mean, Japan dropped out of the League of Nations, colonized China despite their warnings and cut oil exports to Japan. USA didn't even recognized Japanese occupation in Manchuria, nevermind other regions in China.

 

 

Look, the Germans and the Japanese signed a treaty to enter into an alliance.  Obviously, they must have thought it was the right thing to do, otherwise they would not have done it.  Initially, the alliance served them both for a while, as they both were able to expand their empires greatly as a result.  I guess that means it was a strategic alliance, doesn't it?

 

History can be very surprising to modern people.

 

It was Nazi ideology mastermind Karl Ernst Haushofer peddled the idea of German & Japan Alliance according to one program aired on cable TV History Channel in the USA.He imagined some cultural similiarities in his travels to Japan.