Editing Anti-Comintern Pact (section)

==== Germany ====
The German public was informed of the treaty's entry into legislation by the German ''[[Reichsgesetzblatt]]'' in 1937.<ref>Reichsministerium des Innern (1937). ''Reichsgesetzblatt 1937'' (in German). Reichsverlagsamt. pp.&nbsp;27–28. ([[c:File:Deutsches_Reichsgesetzblatt_37T1_007_0027.jpg|page 27]]) ([[c:File:Deutsches_Reichsgesetzblatt_37T1_007_0028.jpg|page 28]])</ref> Ribbentrop justified the Anti-Comintern Pact as a joint German–Japanese act to defend Western civilization.<ref name="Shirer-1960" />{{Rp|299}} The existence of the secret additional protocol and the treaty's anti-Soviet nature was denied in Nazi Germany even after the beginning of the German–Soviet War in 1941.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=W |date=1942 |title=Europäische Einheit im Zeichen des Antikominternpaktes |journal=Zeitschrift für Politik |language=de |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=54–56 |jstor=43347859}}</ref>

The German government launched a pro-Japanese publicity campaign to improve the general opinion of the German public about Japan.<ref name="Stratman-1970" />{{Rp|27}} This was part of the German government's attempt to forge a tighter cultural relationship.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bieber |first=Hans-Joachim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LbTrDAAAQBAJ |title=SS und Samurai: Deutsch-japanische Kulturbeziehungen 1933–1945 |publisher=Iudicium |year=2014 |isbn=9783862050437}}</ref>