Abstract
Germany had strong economic interests in China and even hoped to find a military partner in Chiang Kai-shek's regime against the Soviet Union. Three months before the outbreak of the China War, Yonai had admitted in an interview with German Naval Attache Paul Wenneker that many officers in the Japanese navy had wished to use the chance presented by the Abyssinian War in 1935/36 when all great powers had been concentrating their attention on Africa, for a southern expansion. The Japanese Foreign Ministry, however, succeeded in obtaining decisive limitations concerning the obligations for military support in a secret exchange of letters with the German ambassador. Diametrically opposed to German wishes, Japan struggled to improve bilateral relations with the Soviet Union, thereby recognizing its own weakness. Tokyo had expected that Germany would continue the war, for example from bases in Norway, or somehow would hand over its remaining warships to Japan. Keywords: Abyssinian war; China war; Germany; Japan; Soviet Union
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