Embassies during the war
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German ambassador in Moscow, Von der Schulenburg, was interned some time and then brought to Soviet-turkish border, exchanged for Dekanozov, soviet ambassador to Berlin.
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What about the US and British Embassies in Berlin...and vice versa? Long back I had read " Last train out of Berlin" by an American journo but really cant remember the details. Any idea about how the Japanese diplomats fared in Washington after Pearl harbour?
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What about the US and British Embassies in Berlin...and vice versa? Long back I had read " Last train out of Berlin" by an American journo but really cant remember the details. Any idea about how the Japanese diplomats fared in Washington after Pearl harbour?
Cheers
Sandeep
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About Berlin and american diplomats, it is explained in the first Posts. Japanese ambassador was uinterned some months and then exchanged in August 1942. The embassies are put under e neutral state (Swiss, Sweden...)
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Does anyone know why US consular officials were pulled out of Poland in Sept 39 but a consular presence was kept in Berlin?
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I would imagine that, in the case of Poland, it was an acknowledgement by the US Government that Poland had surrendered to Germany and was then an occupied territory. But since Germany and the US were still at peace, governmental relations continued between the two countries.
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Might well have been William Shirer who gave an account in his booksandeepmukherjee196 wrote:Hi...
What about the US and British Embassies in Berlin...and vice versa? Long back I had read " Last train out of Berlin" by an American journo but really cant remember the details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_ ... hird_Reich
some links with some information.
http://adst.org/2013/11/life-in-embassy ... eXIjEx7FBx
http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/cou/us ... ip-ex.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_o ... .80.931941
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=292051
this document form the US state Department covers some of it
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/176704.pdf
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The exchange happened in August of 1942. The practice was to be over-the-top visible so as to avoid "incidents". USS Augusta sailed into the English Channel at one point with all lights blazing. One ... gentleman ... told me his father said it was to try and cause an incident. In point of fact Adm. Leahy, our ambassador to Vichy France, was being conveyed to his new job.at6 wrote:hi
if memory serves, David Brinkley (I believe) authored a book entitled "Washington at War". In it, he writes of the detention of Axis diplomats (post-Pearl Harbor) and their detenton at, I believe, the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia. Eventually, the diplomats were exchanged. I believe the transport ship was was lighted quite brightly the entire voyage, and that "diplomats" was painted on its side.
Not sure what happened to the embassies, though.
will see if I can find the book and confirm my recollection noted above.