Was he a weeb?
>>25118186
Most educated Westerners had been weebs since the late 1800s when Japan completely modernized in a few decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_government_advisors_in_Meiji_Japan
I'm pretty sure he had a girlfriend before the war, or at least someone he had a strong love interest in Austria. I think it's mentioned in the letters he wrote from Vienna while he was a young man.
I read about it in Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography by John Toland.
>>25118265
His love intrest was a jew.
Very ironic.