Figure 1.--I wouldn't want to play hockey against this lot. Ralph took this photograph at a girls' school in Japan. Note that they do not wear sailor suits as is so common today. The Japanese in the NAZI racial evaluations were rather a kind of honorary Aryans. Ralph's book, however, does not have the typical NAZI racial slant. The caption read, "Oud-Japansche vechtkunst is een verplicht schoolvak." (The available book is a Dutch translation.) This meant, "Old Japanese martial arts is a compulsory subject."

Ralph never mentioned Jews or expressed an opinion of them in his book. So we do not know what he though about them. His book could have never been printed in NAZI Germany if hechad said anuthing positive about them. Apparently some books could be published which avoided the question. Ralph was a keen amateur photgrapher. Note the camera he is holding on the previous page. There are some fascinating photographs from his travels, including images from China and Japan wgich were fighting a war at the time. In Japan he photographed Boy Scouts which at the time were banned in Germany. (I don't know if the text touched on that topic.) There are many photographs of a wide variety of racial types from many different countries. A HBC reader reports, "The photographs are actually quite sympathetic towards the subjects. Not al tall NAZI-propagandistic." I'm not sure how the text touches on the issue of racial diversity.

Sources

Ralph Ross, From Chicago to Chungking (1943). This book is a very fascinating account of his travels through the United States as a young German and NAZI as he describes himself.