On the nail again, Little Hawk. My only quibble with you is about nuclear proliferation. As long as a handful of nations like USA and UK have nuclear weapons without anyone batting an eyelid, then surely India, China, Israel, Ukraine and for that matter every other sovereign state is entitled to be on the same playing field.

Toadfrog, OK I guess we're both right, or at least not wrong. You say there was a formal pact between Germany and Japan, which obviously there was. I still say there was no common purpose between them.

Not sure why you think I'd have difficulty "admitting" that Hitler was a bit unreliable in the honesty department? I put him among the half-dozen worst leaders of the last century without the slightest hesitation.