The Japanese, while currently a great and pure race, are non‐Aryan, and as such should be grateful to their superiors, without whom they would have very little advancement to speak of. This weird, unwritten historical opinion about some kind of ‘equal relationship’ between the [German Fascists] and the Japanese, which everyone brings up during drunken historic debates in the pub, is a hilarious myth.
It’s pretty simple: In the [German Fascist] ideological perspective the Japanese were, in essence, inferior but still not as corrupted by the Jews or communists to become unsalvageable. That combined with typical white boy orientalist obsession, like Himmler wanting the SS to be like the samurai, makes for a perfect potential ally. While most academics argue that the Japanese pact was one born exclusively out of geopolitical convenience, I believe that it can be easily argued that the ideological ground was conveniently set there to an extent as well.
The [Imperial] Japanese already garnered some respect among the higher echelons of [Fascist] societ[ies], even before World War II was looming. Conveniently enough, they were also far away enough to not be perceived as a threat to the purity of the Nordic race. While inferior, they were still a powerful nation in the eyes of ideologues who respected nothing but power, and as such could be considered a worthy ally. An ally which will one day likely have to be completely eradicated, but an ally which can easily be sold both to the heavily indoctrinated members of the [NSDAP], as well as to the wider German populace.
Ironically, the [Imperial] Japanese were a perfect partner to the German Fascists exactly because they were so different. The [German Fascists’] superiority over people who looked a lot more like them, like the Jew or the Slav, required action, victory, domination as proof of superiority. The Japanese, just simply based on racial aesthetics, and a strange ‘Eastern’ culture, were someone that the Germans already were so different to that it was never a question of whether the German eagle could defeat the Japanese panda [sic?], the question was only when.
Click here for events that happened today (November 5).
1886: Sadae Inoue, Axis general who commanded the Imperial forces at the Battles of Peleliu and Angaur, was born.
1895: Walter Wilhelm Gieseking, Axis composer, started his life.
1930: Luigi Facta, Italy’s last prefascist Prime Minister (but later member of the Fascist Senate), expired.
1934: Carl Friedrich Goerdeler became the Third Reich’s Price Commissioner in response to complaints of price gouging.
1935: Heavy rains halted the Fascist offensive in northern Abyssinia for two days.
1936: Berlin published a new penal code introducing heavy penalties for slandering Adolf Schicklgruber or the memories of the late Paul von Hindenburg, Horst Wessel and Albert Leo Schlageter. This code also subtracted duelling from the list of offenses.
1937: As thirty thousand Imperial troops landed practically unopposed at Hangzhou Bay, and Berlin and Warsaw signed a joint declaration on minorities, guaranteeing proper reciprocal treatment and protection of the Polish minority in the Reich and the German minority in Poland, Schicklgruber announced his plan at a secret meeting in the Chancellery in Berlin for an expansionist foreign policy to secure Lebensraum by force.
1940: The Axis pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sunk the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay.
1943: An aircraft bombed the Vatican, but it remains unclear if the vehicle was Allied or Axis.
1990: Rabbi Meir Kahane, Hebrew neofascist, was murdered.