  Why did Hitler ally himself with the Japanese? They are a primitive Race. He had no problem with British, American, Australian and other European Aryans being terribly mistreated (when they were POW's) by the Nips. From information I have found on the issue, I read that German soldiers hated the Japs and they hated the way the Japanese treated the Allied POW's.  Hitler declared the Japanese to be honorary Aryans.      http://greyfalcon.us/picturesg/japan8.jpg     Honorary Aryan  ( German :  Ehrenarier ) is a term from  Nazi Germany ; it was a status granted by the Nazi Bureau of Race Research to people who were not considered to be biologically part of the  Aryan race  as conceived by the Nazis (or enemy nationals who joined Hitler or the Nazis' side), but were granted an honorary status of being part of that race, for example because their services were deemed valuable to the German economy. [1]  Following the  Anti-Comintern Pact  on  Communism , signed in  1936  Hitler bestowed the title on the  Japanese people . The Japanese, though of a different ethnicity, were considered by Nazi ideologists, such as  Heinrich Himmler , to have similar enough qualities to German-Nordic blood in order to warrant an alliance with them.  [1] . Himmler possessed an interest in anthropology of Asian peoples and pantheist religions, which the Japanese shared with Indians and pre-Christian Europeans (see  Germanic Neopaganism  and  Ariosophy ),       An ancient Japanese legend has it that the Japanese people are descended from a blonde haired blue eyed race that came from the stars, a legend remarkably similar to the doctrines that percolated in the secret societies that fostered and mid-wifed the Nazi Party into existence in Germany between the World Wars. Nor did this legend play a small part in the history of World War Two, for it was partly because of its mere existence that Hitler could proclaim the Japanese honorary Aryans and conclude the incorporation of  Japan  into the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis without contradicting Nazi Party racial ideology. This was in no small part due to the Japanese ambassador in  Berlin 's diplomatic skill in pointing out this little known fact of Japanese legends to the Germans. Of course, there were pressing military and political reasons for  Italy  and  Germany  to conclude an alliance with  Japan , but for the race and ideology obsessed Nazi government, so much the better if the Japanese had some sort of Nordic-Aryan connection, no matter how tenuous that might be. An early and continuous problem for the three Axis partners was to arrange the transfer of technology and raw materials from  Europe  to the  Far East . Most transfers occurred via U-boats or Japanese submarines, though both  Germany  and  Italy  undertook long range, and militarily quite risky, flights to Japan as well.        