The German and Japanese race-cleansing campaigns were not entirely unprecedented (the Armenian genocide of World War I stands out as an earlier example), but they were certainly unprecedented in their awful magnitude. . ..…

At the time, British felt that the Anglo- German rivalry was the rivalry, and British tended to see every mishap that occurred to them as German-inspired. Germans, for their part, saw British plots everywhere and, in, British and Germans behaved rather like Americans..…