Foreign volunteers in Japan Army 1938-1945
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Re: Foreign volunteers in Japan Army 1938-1945
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
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.ijnfleetadmiral wrote: ↑09 Mar 2021, 22:32No 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.