{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So the major belligerents of World War II were three states that could claim continuity with the Roman Empire - the Germans by...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/82830020626/", "html": "<p>So the major belligerents of World War II were three states that could claim continuity with the Roman Empire - the Germans by way of the \u201cFirst Reich\u201d of the Holy Roman Empire, the Italians by way of the Papal States, the Russians as the \u201cThird Rome\u201d by way of the Byzantines; two states, America and England, that styled themselves as the \u201cNew Rome\u201d; and Japan, who was like \u201cno, no, we\u2019re just <em>an</em> empire consisting of all the coasts in range of this narrow, mountainous landform\u201d.</p>"}