As Goebbels noted, the purpose of these arguments and the new Axis treaty was to present an alternative to “similar agreements”—that is, the Atlantic Charter—on the Allied side. Hitler was signaling that Germany, Italy, and Japan would offer the world a different form of coexistence and international justice. The resources of the world would be redistributed more equitably, or at least away from the “old” Western democracies toward the “younger” rising powers in Europe and the Far East.
