r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

The interesting aesthetic of the headquarters of Heilan, a Chinese clothing brand

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u/Fabulous_Lobster 11h ago

Things are never simple! Germany were massively involved#Nazi_Germany_and_China) with China until after the war with Japan started and provided military training to China until 1938 – 5 years after the Nazi party's rise to power and still roughly 1 year after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The defendants of the Defence of Sihang Warehouse during the Battle of Shanghai were the German-trained 88th Division, so you actually had Chinese war heroes that looked like this:

I don't believe this is much of a taboo in PRC despite those soldiers being Nationalists given the box-office success The Eight Hundred, which is a pretty interest drama about that battle that you you can watch for free on YouTube. Fell in a rabbit hole after wondering about the uniforms in that movie ;)

u/warhead71 5h ago

But that wasn’t communist Chinese 🤷🏻‍♂️