Ironically, many Chinese have a very favorable opinion of Hitler and the nazis.
There was a German doctor who saved many Chinese in Nanking -- of course, he had to be a nazi, but later got arrested by the Gestapo and died (in either prison or a concentration camp, I can't remember), which is also a bit of an irony.
It is of great wonder to me as to why the Chinese gov't. never set the record straight there, but one can guess as to why.
Germany actually helped China against Japan before the Tripartite Pact. They were big trade partners, the Germans helped industrialize them, helped arm them, and helped modernize their military, and this lasted until 1937 (and continued on in a lesser form until the Tripartite Pact). Without Germany's help, Japan probably could have completely overrun China. Mind you, Germany was helping the Kuomintang, not the Communists. It was Japan who weaked the KMT so much that they fell to the Communists.
Nobody back then knew how things were going to be today.
Ironically, many Chinese have a very favorable opinion of Hitler and the nazis.
There was a German doctor who saved many Chinese in Nanking -- of course, he had to be a nazi, but later got arrested by the Gestapo and died (in either prison or a concentration camp, I can't remember), which is also a bit of an irony.
It is of great wonder to me as to why the Chinese gov't. never set the record straight there, but one can guess as to why.
Germany actually helped China against Japan before the Tripartite Pact. They were big trade partners, the Germans helped industrialize them, helped arm them, and helped modernize their military, and this lasted until 1937 (and continued on in a lesser form until the Tripartite Pact). Without Germany's help, Japan probably could have completely overrun China. Mind you, Germany was helping the Kuomintang, not the Communists. It was Japan who weaked the KMT so much that they fell to the Communists.
Nobody back then knew how things were going to be today.