Japanese residents in Germany...

PanzerMan · #1 (**permalink**) June 6th, 2002, 06:03 PM

Hello List,

A friend of mine requested assistance on this question...there were about 300 Japanese residents in Germany during the Second World War...has anyone heard of this? what happened to them? I suppose they were just ordinary citizens living in Germany...did the Germans "disturbed" them?

My apologies but the information supplied to me was as described above...any leads is appreciated.

Thanks

* Alvin *

Doc Raider · #2 (**permalink**) June 6th, 2002, 09:54 PM

I'm not sure about the question above, exactly, but on an almost related note....when my Grandpa was in Guam, he went into a cave they had just blown and with a squad of Japanese were 3 German "soldiers". He gave me the insignia that he took off of one of them and it's actually from Org. Todt (sp?), what I believe was their labor corps. Like I said, I know it doesn't answer your question, but I figured you'd find it interesting.

By the way, you have a great web page!!!

Andreas Seidel · #3 (**permalink**) June 7th, 2002, 06:38 PM

Some of the Japanese may have volunteered for military service, some were definiately embassy staff. Some may have been wives of Germans.

But I have no information about them whatsoever, sorry.

PanzerMan · #4 (**permalink**) June 8th, 2002, 05:26 AM

Thanks to all who replied,

I must say the incident at Guam was really interesting...it always interest me when such events occur...too bad no or few war films showed such incidents, I am sure it would add a touch of "did you know that might have happened?" to the viewers.

Thanks once again! =-p

* Alvin *