What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
With the sound of a cannon in 1840, the Qing Dynasty, which had been closed for hundreds of years, opened the door, and China opened the beginning of modern history, of course, China's modern history is humiliating, a history of blood and tears of aggression by great powers!
But there is a country that has always been friendly with China, and constantly helps China to carry out modernization, train the army and the like, this country is Germany, Germany from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to the early stage of World War II, the relationship with China has been very friendly, a European power, an Axis country why is it so friendly with China?
Churchill once said, "There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests." ”
Great power diplomacy is about interests, and Germany is friendly with China, because Germany can get a lot of benefits in China, so what are these interests?
First of all, resources, China's land is vast, there are many rare resources to be used in the industry, such as tungsten tin and other precious strategic resources!
At that time, after World War I, Germany lost a large number of overseas territories, and the Allies themselves are difficult to protect, so they can only take from China, of course, it is not for free, Germany helped China to do a lot of infrastructure, many enterprises were developed at that time, this China's eight-year victory in the War of Resistance laid the foundation, so this is a win-win situation, China is also happy to see it.
Second, Chiang Kai-shek needed a lot of military equipment and training the army, and the other powers demanded too much price, completely treating China as a sheep, and Germany, as a defeated country at that time, had the same disease as China.
Coupled with the history of helping China since the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Germany has become on good terms with China and is the only country to sign an equal treaty with China.
Of course, according to some other reports, there is also a hint of Hitler's personal reasons, Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" once mentioned his childhood time, he was living in Austria at that time, poor, there was a Chinese couple living in Austria selflessly helped him, the family named "zhang", this family once provided him with 500 Austrian Imperial shillings at one time free of charge, let him study and live.
For this reason, Hitler was very grateful to Chinese, who believed that the Chinese nation was the greatest nation in the world and the only nation that could compete with the Germans, so because of this, he spared no effort to support China.
He also fantasized about dominating the world with China, co-opting China, wanting China to be on the same front as him, and also tried to prevent Japan from invading China, but in the end, for some reasons, it was finally stopped.
However, some people say that Hitler's help from Chinese is nothing more than a fabrication of some "people" in China with ulterior motives, and no one knows the truth of the matter.