The axis - Berlin, Rome, Tokyo

This book is about how the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis found itself and how it plunged the world into a war of unprecedented proportions with its attempts at reorganization. True, the dream of a fascist world order lasted only a short time - but it was a shared dream that had matured over a long time and across continents. The internal political radicalization of the Axis powers and their outward expansionism by no means took place in closed national biotopes. Rather, the Axis was a product of transnational cooperation and interaction: The three regimes radicalized each other, thereby gaining momentum and subsequently developing international explosive power. At the same time, their project was never limited solely to the geopolitical redistribution of the world. Rather, the Axis powers were striving for a fascist reordering that would radically break with everything that existed. Their alliance was thus based on ideological common ground and shared world views. Against the backdrop of current world political developments, Daniel Hedinger's history of the Axis, which also offers a global history of fascism, suddenly seems strangely familiar and ominously close.