Nothing happens in a vacuum. There are no &quot;good guys&quot; or &quot;bad guys&quot;. Japan and Germany both pursued an agenda that were each ultimately misguided for a variety of different reasons. If you look for it, you will find similarly awful (and sometimes far worse) encroachments on the rights of human beings perpetrated by all kinds of people against all kinds of people.<p>The important point is that the people who did those things are dead now. It&#x27;s up to you and I to understand how they got to that point, and make decisions to avoid it happening again. Unfortunately, the history we&#x27;re taught in school is very simplistic and does little to illuminate the causes for such an effect.<p>In the end, the fact that Japan and Germany made a run for world domination is a signal that there is great strength and power in those civilizations. We should be looking for all the ways to harness that power to good ends.