First of all, let me talk about my views on Sino-German relations during World War II.
As far as Germany as a whole is concerned, under the strict restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, the German army was limited to100000 people under the oppression of western powers. In order to maintain national strength, the father of the German Defence Force, Sechett, and others hid military organizations and sent soldiers to serve overseas (for example, guderian served in the Baltic countries of the former Soviet Union, and the Roma served as consultants in American countries). Sechet even advocated the establishment of military cooperation with the Soviet Union and China, and gradually formed pro-China forces in Germany. From 65438 to 0933, Secher went to work in China, which happened against the background that Hitler came to power. Hitler's Nazi strongly opposed the Soviet Union and United with Japanese militarism to exclude China, which was contrary to Sechett's pro-Soviet pro-China policy. At the same time, Sechett hated Poland, and Hitler shouted anti-Soviet while pretending to be friendly with Poland in order to paralyze the West. 1In June, 934, it signed a non-aggression treaty with Poland, which split the relationship between the Soviet Union and Poland. Because Germany's interests in China are mainly concentrated in the north of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River valley is the sphere of influence of Britain, France and the United States, the development of German-Japanese relations is greatly influenced by this factor. 1932 When Japan established the Puppet Manchukuo, Germany, which relied heavily on northeast soybeans and other raw materials, began to lean toward Japan. 1933 when pro-Japanese Nazis came to power, this trend was reflected. At the same time, German pro-China forces still have great influence, maintaining close relations with China, but they have been gradually weakened. 1935, fakenhausen took over as general counsel. Participated in Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China and served as military attache in Japan. Although he was also anti-Japanese because of the Japanese attack on Germany in World War I and supported China's war of resistance, he was obviously influenced by Germany's domestic policy and took a fence-riding attitude. For example, when helping China formulate its national defense policy, Feng? Falkenhausen suggested that Chiang Kai-shek fight a war of attrition with the Japanese. He believes that Japan has no hope of winning a long-term war through calculation. He advised Chiang Kai-shek to defend the front line of the Yellow River, but not to attack the north in the early and middle stages of the war. At the same time, some northern provinces, including Shandong, should be ceded, but the retreat should be slow, and every step Japan takes will pay a price. Germany's primary purpose is to protect its interests in the north from the war. In Sino-German trade, he sent unusable weapons to Germany, and the price of weapons was higher than the international market price. Falkenhausen told Song Meiling that the reason for these two problems is that Germany may have sent the wrong goods, and the high price is due to the problems in Chinese inspection and Germany's position. It is obvious that German relations with China are increasingly influenced by domestic pro-Japanese forces and increasingly alienated from China. After the July 7th Incident, German consultants gave no support to the Anti-Japanese War in North China. The powers and Germany were unwilling to mediate the Sino-Japanese war. Only the Soviet Union supported China and the two sides signed a non-aggression treaty. In order to prevent the Sino-Soviet union from uniting, Germany was forced to participate in mediating the Sino-Japanese War. After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in Songhu and the fall of Nanjing, the ambition of the Japanese war of aggression expanded, and China's unacceptable conditions of subjugation were put forward in German mediation, which was rejected. After the failure of German mediation, at the beginning of 1938, the domestic pro-Japanese fascist forces increased greatly, controlling national defense and diplomacy. They thought that China had failed, so pro-Japanese ribbentrop took a series of measures to solve several major obstacles in German-Japanese relations-recognition of Manchukuo, military advisers in China and arms export. 1938 February 2 1 day, Germany recognized Manchukuo as an independent country. On March 3 of the same year, Germany decided not to accept Japanese military academy students before the end of the Sino-Japanese War, and expelled the existing German military academy students in China. On April 22nd, the German military adviser in China returned to Germany. It can be said that with the German territories with German interests such as Northeast China, Shandong and North China falling into the hands of the Japanese, the rich areas in the south of the Yangtze River were captured. The German fascist regime thought that the political and economic exchanges with China were worthless, but completely colluded with the Japanese aggressors, and the relationship with China gradually changed from cooperation to hostility.
Secondly, because of the leader Hitler, Hitler's childhood in Vienna was very poor, and he received selfless help from an Austrian family named Zhang. Give him 500 Austrian imperial shillings for tuition and living expenses free of charge, and often invite him to dinner at home. When he knew that Hitler had a good talent for painting, the kind China family also took the initiative to help him contact the famous Vienna University, hoping to fund him to study at the university. "Their help is selfless. Later, Hitler came to power and merged Austria, but at that time, no matter what method was used, this kind benefactor was never found again. Hitler liked Sun Tzu's Art of War and Zi Tongzhi Sword, and often put it on the bedside.
In the early days of the Axis Alliance, at the military base in Mainz, he privately said to his Secretary-General Armstrong: "It is a shame to form an alliance with such a country. They only fish by the sea! " In his correspondence with some important generals, he also put forward his idea of dividing the world into two parts: Bakastan (the border between eastern Poland and the Soviet Union at that time) as the boundary, the western part (Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean) as the territory of the Third Reich, and the eastern part (Asia Minor, India and the west coast of the Pacific Ocean) as the territory of the Republic of China. Therefore, despite the pressure from Italy to form an alliance with Japan,
The last reason is race, because there are pure Aryans in Asia, and it has always been doubtful whether China people have Aryan ancestry. For example, Guo Wei, the second son of Jiang Gong, is a German officer. Germany is far superior to Britain and America in China. In addition, Hitler paid all the expenses of the China delegation to the 1936 Olympic Games, and said that the people of China were "special people with different skin colors and deserved more rights." China received a lot of support from Germany during World War II, using advanced German equipment. At that time, the Soviet Union would only try to split China in the name of "red"! Germany and China are friendly in the battle! Send experts and China to consider strategies for many times. At that time, Germany attacked all countries that took in Jews. China took in the most such people, and Germany didn't even mention the conditions.
Therefore, Sino-German relations during World War II were very complicated and changeable. If we start with the changes of Sino-German relations during World War II, we can use the title of "the interest alternation of Sino-German relations during World War II" to highlight the view that there are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests.