| That is not quite true. Fascism was the inspiration for Nazism, and Hitler cultivated Mussolini's friendship. In Japan, State Shinto was being caste along racialist lines (the Japanese were the Divine Race, from the Emperor, and would establish a new racial order in East Asia), and many features of Nazism were mirrored, including, amazingly enough, anti- Semitism. However, it is true that there was not much military coordination. Mussolini, for example, hesitated to declare war on France and get in the fray, until it was clear that Hitler was succeeding. Then he sent in a division or two for show. The main thing that showed the Alliance between Germany and Japan was Hitler's willingness to declare war on the United States after we declared war on Japan....... |
