Editing Second Sino-Japanese War (section)

===German===
{{Main|China–Germany relations (1912–1949)}}
[[File:Kung and hitler.jpg|thumb|[[H. H. Kung]] and [[Adolf Hitler]] in Berlin]]

Prior to the war, Germany and China were in close economic and military cooperation, with Germany helping China modernize its industry and military in exchange for raw materials. Germany sent military advisers such as [[Alexander von Falkenhausen]] to China to help the KMT government reform its armed forces.{{sfnp|Mitter|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bqc_YkuyaCIC&pg=PA65 65]}} [[List of German-trained divisions of the National Revolutionary Army|Some divisions]] began training to German standards and were to form a relatively small but well trained Chinese Central Army. By the mid-1930s about 80,000 soldiers had received German-style training.{{sfnp|Mitter|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bqc_YkuyaCIC&pg=PA66 66]}} After the KMT lost Nanjing and retreated to Wuhan, Hitler's government decided to withdraw its support of China in 1938 in favour of an alliance with Japan as its main anti-Communist partner in East Asia.{{sfnp|Mitter|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bqc_YkuyaCIC&pg=PA165 165]}}