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"There have always been two Germanies. The same is true for Japan: one capitalist, therefore anglophile, and beside it the Japan of the rising sun, the land of the Samurai." - Adolf Hitler
Hitler had supported Japan as early as 1904, when during the Russo-Japanese War it had defeated the Russians, which he considered a defeat of the Slavic race he hated. He made a number of other statements expressing his respect and admiration for the Japanese in his book Mein Kampf.
Although of a different race, the Japanese were considered by Nazi ideologists such as Himmler as having similar enough qualities with German-Nordic blood to warrant an alliance. Himmler, who possessed a great interest in, and was influenced by, the anthropology, philosophies and pantheistic religions of East Asia, mentioned how his friend Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese Ambassador to Germany, believed that the noble castes in Japan, the Daimyo and the Samurai, were descended from gods of celestial origin, which was similar to Himmler's own belief that "the Nordic race did not evolve, but came directly down from heaven to settle on the Atlantic continent." [...]
The distinction was viewed by the Japanese themselves with pride, and moreover, as corroboration of their own, independent belief that they were superior to other Asians. The approximately 10,000 Japanese nationals who resided in Germany during World War II enjoyed more privileges than any other non-European ethno-national group under their "honorary Aryan" citizenship.
"I felt, that in the mind of Hitler there was much of spiritual matters, transcending material plans. When I met the Führer he said that since boyhood he had been attracted by Japan. He read carefully reports of Japan's victory over Russia when he was only 17 years old and was impressed by Japan's astonishing strength."
— Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita (1940)
Hitler had supported Japan as early as 1904, when during the Russo-Japanese War it had defeated the Russians, which he considered a defeat of the Slavic race he hated. He made a number of other statements expressing his respect and admiration for the Japanese in his book Mein Kampf.
Although of a different race, the Japanese were considered by Nazi ideologists such as Himmler as having similar enough qualities with German-Nordic blood to warrant an alliance. Himmler, who possessed a great interest in, and was influenced by, the anthropology, philosophies and pantheistic religions of East Asia, mentioned how his friend Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese Ambassador to Germany, believed that the noble castes in Japan, the Daimyo and the Samurai, were descended from gods of celestial origin, which was similar to Himmler's own belief that "the Nordic race did not evolve, but came directly down from heaven to settle on the Atlantic continent." [...]
The distinction was viewed by the Japanese themselves with pride, and moreover, as corroboration of their own, independent belief that they were superior to other Asians. The approximately 10,000 Japanese nationals who resided in Germany during World War II enjoyed more privileges than any other non-European ethno-national group under their "honorary Aryan" citizenship.
"I felt, that in the mind of Hitler there was much of spiritual matters, transcending material plans. When I met the Führer he said that since boyhood he had been attracted by Japan. He read carefully reports of Japan's victory over Russia when he was only 17 years old and was impressed by Japan's astonishing strength."
— Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita (1940)
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