 Complete the following phrase:  Although pursuing an alliance based on Realpolitik with Imperial Japan in the battle against the Western Plutocracies and Soviet Bolshevism, the Nazi leadership ultimately considered this cooperation only temporary in nature. The racial ideology of Nazism predicted that the fate of human civilization depended on the ultimate triumph of the Germanic-Nordic peoples, and in fact the populous Asian continent was seen as the greatest threat to hegemony of the white race. The Japanese people were characterized as culture-bearers, meaning they could make use of the technological and civilizational achievements of the Aryan race and by so doing maintain an advanced society, but could not truly create culture themselves. Gerhard Weinberg asserts that the historical evidence points to the conclusion that Hitler, 