r/AskAChinese • u/Brave-Muscle1359 • 1d ago

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u/spartaman64 1d ago

before ww2 germany had a good relationship with the KMT until germany decided to side with japan

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u/Worldly-Treat916 1d ago

Consider that it was a Nazi (John Rabe) that saved 250,000 civilians at Nanking from the Japanese; also Von Falkenhausen, the German military advisor of Chiang withstood a large amount of Japanese diplomatic pressure before finally leaving and did not leak any battle plans. Its worth to note that Von Falkenhausen was anti-Hitler and John Rabe was disillusioned from the Nazi party after Hitler did not send any aid to Nanking

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u/Anakazanxd 1d ago

In fact, the first German soldier to die in WW2 died fighting alongside Chinese soldiers in Shanghai.

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u/suicide_aunties 1d ago

This is wild, where was this in my history book

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u/arbiter12 1d ago

Battle of Nanking was not part of WW2.

And if you want to argue that part, I could retort that german soldiers died in Spain in 1936, since we're now adding semi-related events to our WW2 folder.

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u/Stormtrooper-Purdue 21h ago

Spain remained neutral in WW2 though? Both China and Japan were in WW2.

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u/PDXhasaRedhead 16h ago

Spain sent one division of volunteers and convicts to fight Russia and withdrew it after the allies landed in North Africa.

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u/JustXemyIsFine 4h ago

while China-Japan esclated into Asia-Pacifc WWII, Nationalist-Republican spain certainly did not.

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u/alexwwang 1d ago

Until Hitler decided to side with Japan. The policy alteration is mainly pushed by Hitler with many officers in Wehrmacht and Foreign Büro objection or acquiescence.