| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["war"],"appCategory":"war","appTitle":"Why did Nazi Germany allied with the Italians and the Japanese?","appBody":"<p>It's a great subject, Thanks for your question ..</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jplehmann/files/2015/08/axis-oki.jpg\" /></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The Italian alliance has enough reasons. On the Japanese one I'll leave it for the end.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The first thing is that we must not forget that Mussolini came to power long before Hitler. During that time, Hitler saw, learned and copied many of the characteristics of the fascist movement in Italy.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Then, once Hitler came to power, Italy was one of the natural allies, since it was close (after the annexation of Austria they shared border), they had no territorial conflicts (really if there were any in the East of Italy, obtained from Austria-Hungary after the First World War, but Hitler was not interested in the least), had similar political systems (fascist dictatorships) and their areas of interest were close, but not overlapping (Germany wanted Poland and European Russia, while Italy I wanted the Balkans and Africa).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>In addition, between Hitler and Mussolini was created a friendship (they were not the \"best friends\", but if there was some friendship.) We must also bear in mind that the Allies did not fulfill the promises given to the Italians to betray the Triple Alliance in the First World War (they were granted only a few Islands of the Ottoman Empire and the area of Veneto and Istria [Treaty of London (1915)].</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>On the other hand, the \"alliance\" (to call it somehow) with the Japanese, was based only on the phrase \"The enemy of my enemy is my friend\". Both Japan and Germany feared the USSR, and in 1936 they signed the Antikomintern Pact (Italy also joined, among others).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"http://www.psywarrior.com/TripartitePactSigning.jpg\" /></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>And as for the tripartite pact, Japan adhered because it was a way to get French Indochina without fighting.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>But there was nothing else. Germany and Japan looked for their own interests, instead of looking for common interests. No strategic objectives were ever coordinated or there was no military coordination (except to offer some port for submarines).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>After all, if Japan had invaded the USSR in 1941 or 1942, the result might have been another [If Stalin left the troops in Siberia, he would not have been able to carry out the 1941 winter counterattack, and in that case, It would have been necessary for Japan to attack, only the \"threat\" or \"possibility\" of it, and even if it had taken the troops, because the Japanese advance, although of doubtful quality, would have provoked a war on 2 fronts to the USSR, inevitably absorbing resources that were used against Germany in 1942. It may still have won the USSR, but ... who knows ...</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f32gbyh95","appParentAuthor":"muzaidi","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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