Racist? yes, NO?

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The Germans, in contrast, were treated like comic fools. Hitler was a buffoon, not a serious threat, in American propaganda. The Japanese, or Tojo? Completely evil. We now know who was worse... but you'd never have figured that out from seeing WWII American propaganda.

I bet the fact that Japan launched a direct and unprovoked attack on the United States had nothing to do with this difference in characterization!

Don't be so dense. Sixty years of hindsight and history have made Hitler out to be the ultimate evil of the war (and he truly was), but the true depth of that evil was not revealed until the end of the war. In addition, Germany never posed a legitimate threat to the United States. Japan did. In fact, our initial declaration of war did not include Germany or Italy or any other Axis satellite. Until Hitler stupidly decided to issue a pre-emptive declaration of war against the U.S., America was content to focus primarily on Japan. The Pacific Theater has been marginalized over the years, which is why we rarely remember the truth about Japan: They were America's real nemesis in that war, not Germany.