The geo-ideological alignment between the two main Axis powers, by contrast, was close.132 They envisaged the establishment of a new world order in which the German Reich dominated Europe and the Japanese Empire the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.” Together, they would claim their fair share of the world’s resources and global recognition. The United States and the British Empire would not be broken up entirely, but rather confined to a much smaller global zone of influence. There would not necessarily be Axis world domination as such, but rather—from their point of view—a more
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