Why did Germany, Italy, and Japan ally despite themselves believing to be the superior race? Wouldn’t having aryans mixed with the Japanese a problem?
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Well they all kind of needed each other and were more ideologically similar than any of the allies. Mussolini and hitler were actually decent friends. Hitler allied with Russia too because he needed them off his back for awhile. He can and did change his mind latter. Same thing may have happened had the axis powers won, they all may have turned on each other trying to get world dominance.
They were alliances of expediency.
Hitler had no love for the Japanese. He considered them an inferior race. But Germany had no serious short-term designs on that part of the world, and believed that Japan could help in case the USA joined the war. And possibly help make the USSR fight on two fronts after Hitler turned on them. (Hitler also hated Communists.)
Mussolini and Hitler had a friendly relationship, and Hitler felt that they could help in southern Europe/northern Africa. He had no doubt that they could be defeated later.
Hitler wasn’t concerned with either of them in the short term as racial purity was not his goal, just a tool to control the hateful masses towards his real goals of expansion and German dominance.
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