The first few months are really frustrating. I was down to a soft brace after 4 months and just tennis shoes another 6 weeks after that. Take it slow because you don’t want to rush it and then screw it up even more.

I would say that it’s at about 90% after three years. It still twinges at times (today was not a good day) but I also did some pretty severe damage to the major tendons in my ankle

That’s what I did a few years ago and I can confirm that it is an unpleasant experience - do you need surgical repair?

Oh no! Broken ankles are the worst. Hope it’s a relatively straightforward recovery

Congratulations!! Looking forward to reading it!

That would be my guess

Thank you for the kind words - I’m glad you found my article helpful/interesting!

Practically speaking race was made a non-issue after 1935 and the alliance was sold to the German public as a geopolitical project

They weren’t quite equal to the Germans but that they shared enough of the same geopolitical goals that an alliance (with separate spheres of influence) was a viable proposition for at least the immediate future. There was also a faction that still subscribed to the old yellow peril nonsense.

There were several high-placed individuals within the SS and Propaganda Ministry who believed that the Japanese were Aryan and so there was no problem working with them (or marrying them for that matter). There was also the position (usually associated with a few quotes from Mein Kampf) that…

@waitmanwbeorn.com thanks for the shout out! Like most things, the simple answer is that there was never a consensus within Nazism about how to categorize the Japanese racially and so depending on who:which org you’re looking at the answer can vary a lot.

I’d like to be added please!