Jeff Simmons
Active member
Germany and Japan
Doppleganger...Japan's communications were compromised just as Germany's communications were. The codes were cracked just before the Battle of Midway in 1942. It gave the Americans sufficient information to give the Japanese a thorough thrashing from which they would not recover.
Yet I digress (my former students could tell you that I do this all of the time)...I don't think that Germany and Japan had any real interest in what the other was doing. Japan's objective was to create its "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere," which had nothing to do with taking lands outside of southeast Asia and the Pacific. And if the Germans had taken their goals in Europe, I would doubt that they would have had enough troops to sufficiently occupy any further areas.
Doppleganger...Japan's communications were compromised just as Germany's communications were. The codes were cracked just before the Battle of Midway in 1942. It gave the Americans sufficient information to give the Japanese a thorough thrashing from which they would not recover.
Yet I digress (my former students could tell you that I do this all of the time)...I don't think that Germany and Japan had any real interest in what the other was doing. Japan's objective was to create its "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere," which had nothing to do with taking lands outside of southeast Asia and the Pacific. And if the Germans had taken their goals in Europe, I would doubt that they would have had enough troops to sufficiently occupy any further areas.