WEEKLY PUZZLES · SEPTEMBER 27

Tripartite Pact Signed in Berlin

Three governments met in Berlin to formalize an alliance already taking shape across distant battlefields. One article gave the pact its wider meaning.

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Representatives of Germany, Italy, and Japan at the Tripartite Pact signing in Berlin on 27 September 1940. The agreement formally linked their wartime alignment.
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Representatives of Germany, Italy, and Japan at the Tripartite Pact signing in Berlin on 27 September 1940. The agreement formally linked their wartime alignment.

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