All sides were engaged in a racial struggle, though “race” meant different things to each. In his mind, Hitler was battling not only the Jews and Slavs but also the Anglo-Saxons; he was fighting Bolshevism, but even more he was struggling against international plutocratic capitalism. The Japanese were challenging white imperial rule in East Asia and articulating their vision of a Tokyo-dominated “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere,” a stepping-stone toward a grand bargain with the Western powers.125 Britain and the United States, by contrast, were battling Hitler on behalf of the balance
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