# Racially what did Hitler think of the Japanese?

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**Created:** [June 1, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racially-what-did-hitler-think-of-the-japanese/248050 "2004-06-01T12:03:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racially-what-did-hitler-think-of-the-japanese/248050/1 "2004-06-01T12:03:27Z")

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I would guess that Hitler chose his allies only strategically without any real sense of comaraderie.

For someone with such views of Aryan racial sumpremecy, I can’t imagine the idea of friendship with Japanese would have seemed particularly attractive (or even dark-haired, dark-skinned Italians for that matter).

So, on the issue of race, how did Hitler feel about his allies? Did he treat them with respect?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racially-what-did-hitler-think-of-the-japanese/248050/2 "2004-06-01T12:43:11Z")

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> Ribbentrop exploited Germany’s triumph by doing his best to create a four-powered alliance against Britain: Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. What these powers had in common, Ribbentrop argued, was hatred of Britain. They would all benefit from her defeat. He had some difficulty in selling his ideas both to the Japanese who were outraged by the Nazi-Soviet Pact and to the Russians. When Ribbentrop enthused over the imminent disintegration of the British Empire during an RAF raid on Berlin in November 1940, Molotov asked, `Why are we in this air-raid shelter and whose are these bombs which fall?' It was also hard work convincing Hitler that Britain, not Russia, was the enemy. Even so between June 1940 and June 1941 Hitler hesitated far more than used to be thought. He listened to Ribbentrop's advocacy of a real alternative to his doctrinaire determination to attack Russia: an anti-British alliance based on opportunistic power-politics rather than race (Ribbentrop humourlessly called the Japanese `the Aryans of the East’).

From [here.](http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1373/is_11_51/ai_80163113/pg_2)