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Why exactly did Nazi Germany and Japan ally amongst one another? Nazi ideology considered the Japanese inferior and Japanese ideology considered the Japanese to be superior to Europeans so what was the potential endgame between the two? Also, why didn't Japan open a 2nd front against the Soviets?

by /u/KevTravels in /r/AskHistorians

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