Embassies during the war

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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by Ghjuvan » 02 Dec 2014, 12:41

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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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by sandeepmukherjee196 » 02 Dec 2014, 14:09

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. Any idea about how the Japanese diplomats fared in Washington after Pearl harbour?

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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by Ghjuvan » 02 Dec 2014, 15:21

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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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by wagon99 » 16 Oct 2017, 12:21

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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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by Br. James » 16 Oct 2017, 19:00

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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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by pugsville » 17 Oct 2017, 11:10

sandeepmukherjee196 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.
Might well have been William Shirer who gave an account in his book
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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Re: Embassies during the war

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Post by OpanaPointer » 17 Oct 2017, 13:31

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.
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.
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