>>724897245
Japan is the only axis power that wasn't forced to flagellate itself over its axis membership, so it developed a culture of lionising the axis powers within their nerdier subcultures. Obviously, because it's Japan, that means anime and manga are involved. So westerners who want to get into cool and weird stuff regarding the axis side of the war inevitably have to go to Japan to find content, which means they have to associate with anime stuff. conversely, anime fans inevitably find themselves exposed to Japan's fascination with Imperial Japanese and Nazi German imagery.