Foreign volunteers in Japan Army 1938-1945

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Re: Foreign volunteers in Japan Army 1938-1945

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Post by ijnfleetadmiral » 09 Mar 2021, 22:32

No Germans served in the IJN...they were all rounded up by the Japanese and put into POW camps. Their treatment by the Japanese was - like the Allied POWs - not pleasant. Ex-allies or not, they still surrendered, which to the Japanese way of thinking was the ultimate dishonor.
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Re: Foreign volunteers in Japan Army 1938-1945

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Post by DrG » 10 Mar 2021, 02:16

ijnfleetadmiral wrote:
09 Mar 2021, 22:32
No Germans served in the IJN...they were all rounded up by the Japanese and put into POW camps. Their treatment by the Japanese was - like the Allied POWs - not pleasant. Ex-allies or not, they still surrendered, which to the Japanese way of thinking was the ultimate dishonor.
I would not rule out the presence of German sailors in the IJN. There is the well known case of the Italian Raffaello Sanzio, who served on the I.503 (former Italian submarine Cappellini then German submarine U.IT.24) also after the German armistice, till the end of the war, for example.


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