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Keep up the good work, I’d say. I don’t know how you come across these details, but I’m glad you share them. I’ve learned quite a bit.
Thanks! Occasionally I’ll share a link that I found while lurking Reddit or whatnot, but most of the time I find these doing searches on ResearchGate, Libgen, Google Books, Google Scholar, SearXNG, or, as a last resort, Wikipedia.
It helps that I am inquisitive, possibly more so than others my age, and I wonder about details with which I have only the vaguest familiarity; as, I know that Germany, Italy, and Japan were all allies, but what did they actually do together? I had never seen anybody discuss that. And asking things like that turns me towards research such as this.
Seeing others benefit from my knowledge is my goal, but expanding my own knowledge is worthwhile all the same.
It’s important work. Funnily enough, I frequently refer to this IRL in conversations about education and propaganda. Like you, I know the Nazis weren’t alone, so I ask, ‘why weren’t you taught anything about the Spain, Italy, and Japan in school?’ That question is often enough to get people to think about the extent to which the West really did (it didn’t) eradicate fascism after WWII (which serves my rhetorical purpose). But I don’t have much more to add than that because, I also wasn’t taught about what the fascists of other countries were up to in the twentieth century. So it’s great to see someone digging up sources.