Honorary Aryan (German: Ehrenarier) is a term from Nazi Germany; it was a status granted by the Nazi Bureau of Race Research to people who were not considered to be biologically part of the Aryan race as conceived by the Nazis (or enemy nationals who joined Hitler or the Nazis side), but were granted an quot;honoraryquot; status of being part of that race, for example because their services were deemed valuable to the German economy. Following the Anti-Comintern Pact on Communism, signed in 1936 Hitler bestowed the title on the Japanese people. The Japanese, though of a different ethnicity, were considered by Nazi ideologists, such as Heinrich Himmler, to have similar enough qualities to German-Nordic blood in order to warrant an alliance with them. Himmler possessed an interest in anthropology of Asian peoples and pantheist religions, which the Japanese shared with Indians and pre-Christian Europeans ,
~In the beginning, they weren t allies. I wasn t aware that Hitler intended to take over the world and kill all non-Aryans. I guess Mussolini wasn t aware of that either (nor the Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine who offered to ally with him, or the Thai, or the Hungarians, Yogoslavs, Romanians and Bulgarians, or the South Americans who sided with him but remained neutral or the neutral Spanish, whom he had helped in his practice war in Spain between 36 and 39. Of course, the Anglos, Saxons and Normans who successively conquered the British Isle or the Rus who settled Russia were Aryan, so they had nothing to worry about apparently. Thank you for the enlightenment, but I think I ll stick with the facts and the history. WWII started in Asia in 1931 with the Manchurian Invasion. The Second Sino-Japanese War heated up after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937. (After Pearl Harbor it was re-designated the Asian or Pacific Theater of WWII but it was the same war.) Between 1931 and 1940, Germany was assisting China. So was the UK, along with the Dutch and the Soviet Union. Great Britain got Australia and New Zealand and South Africa involved. The US claimed to be neutral. FDR didn t want to be neutral. The US wasn t neutral. Rather, the US clearly chose sides in Asia and in Europe, and FDR did his best to help Germany s enemies as well as Japan s. In doing so, he violated all accepted standards of neutrality, short of sending official troops into battle. quot;Advisersquot; are a different matter, of course, as were free-lance groups like Claire Chennault s Flying Tigers. In Europe, we went from the various Neutrality Acts through Cash and Carry and Boats for Bases to Lend/Lease. Each step was a closer step to actual overt participation in the war. Each step was intended to make it easier to supply the UK with weapons and materials to use against Germany and harder and harder for Germany to trade with the US for vital goods. Each step inevitably made a declaration of war against the US and/or Germany more ominous and more certain. In Asia, the US was sending aid to China, including arms, equipment, supplies, cash and advisers. When France fell to the Nazis and Vichy France took over Indochina, Japan made a deal with Vichy France to use Indochina as a jumping off point to prosecute the war in China. They did so because the US was beefing up bases in Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Pearl Harbor and Midway. Those bases were astride Japanese trade routes and military sea lanes. They were guns pointed at Japan s head and the Japanese feared outright military intervention and attack by the US. At the time, the US was just reinforcing the bases and building new ones and providing only quot;surreptitiousquot; aid to China, aid of which Japan was well aware. The US was also increasing embargoes against Japan and the US bases threatened Japan s access to necessary resources like rubber, oil and steel and food. Japan has never been able to feed herself from the home islands and lacks sufficient resources with which to establish and maintain industry and to modernize. The Occidental powers intended to keep it that way. Since the US, the UK, the Dutch and the French had already taken over and colonized most of the Pacific Basin, Indonesia and Indochina, Japan naturally looked to China and Korea to expand. She had her eye on Indochina as well, but with the French already there Japan didn t try taking it. The Western powers had their colonies and imperialist empires in place. Japan was following the Western example in her attempt to take a place among the elite nations of the world. The West was not going to allow the uppity Yellow Peril to a place on their pedestal. Matthew Perry s Black Ships had put Japan in her place in 1854, and there the Rising Sun was going to stay. The Japanese thought otherwise. Once the Vichy French allowed Japan into Indochina, FDR decided to make another quot;neutralquot; move. A group of Indochinese patriots, nationalists and freedom fighters had been fighting a guerrilla war against the French for decades. They were called the Viet Minh. One of their leaders was Ho Chi Mihn. FDR started sending aid to Ho and his freedom fighters, again including arms, war materials, economic aid and military advisers. (FDR would double-cross Ho at Yalta and Tehran and HST would stab him and the Viet Minh in the back in 1945 and 1946 and Ike would follow suit in 1954 and 1956 and the Vietnam War would follow, but in 1940, those guys were our buddies and our allies. Berlin and Japan saw the writing on the wall. Neither of them wanted it but war with the US was inevitable. FDR was making sure of that. They, with Italy, signed the Tripartite Pact. Germany had cut back aid to the Chinese in 1938 (before then, China was the largest importer of German arms), but now the Nazis abandoned the Chinese completely. The pact was a mutual defense treaty. The sole purpose of it was to tell FDR that if the US attacked one of them, we would be at war with all of them. Hitler and Tojo hoped that the US would not want to get involved in a global on two fronts across two oceans. Uncle Sam drove the Germans and Japanese into one another s arms.
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