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  • leont
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    Hello...

    Perhaps someone could tell with some certainty if soldiers on this postcard are prisoners or prison camp staff.

    Postcards shows a scene from WWI prison camp in Japan.

    Perhaps someone can tell by military uniforms wherer they are English, German, French or some other.

    I see that one of these soldiers wears some kind of sword, so this might be a hint that these arent actually prisoners.

    Any idea?
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  • yeoldcuriocabinet
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    Hello...

    Perhaps someone could tell with some certainty if soldiers on this postcard are prisoners or prison camp staff.

    Postcards shows a scene from WWI prison camp in Japan.

    Perhaps someone can tell by military uniforms wherer they are English, German, French or some other.

    I see that one of these soldiers wears some kind of sword, so this might be a hint that these arent actually prisoners.

    Any idea?
    • Created on Jun 1, 2012 at 4:11 PM
    • #388730
    Your card appears to be of German Officers that where captured by Japanese (they we on our side during WW1) being held in the Japanese city of Marugame and receiving packages from home.



  • leont
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    Your card appears to be of German Officers that where captured by Japanese (they we on our side during WW1) being held in the Japanese city of Marugame and receiving packages from home.



    • Created on Jun 3, 2012 at 7:09 AM
    • #388902
    Thank you...

    That was also my initial conclusion (I even put it on sale with that kind of description), but then I saw that one of officers is wearing a sword. To let a prisoner carry a weapon is not something that would be allowed these days.

    Perhaps it was normal back then?

    So:

    Are you certain about this? Can you confirm that their uniforms are German?


    Regards....
  • yeoldcuriocabinet
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    Thank you...

    That was also my initial conclusion (I even put it on sale with that kind of description), but then I saw that one of officers is wearing a sword. To let a prisoner carry a weapon is not something that would be allowed these days.

    Perhaps it was normal back then?

    So:

    Are you certain about this? Can you confirm that their uniforms are German?


    Regards....
    • Created on Jun 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM
    • #388908
    They look like Germans to me but I am no expert.

    The Japanese apparently treated their prisoners very well during WW1. Some even stayed in Japan at the end of the war. So letting the officers carry there swords is not beyond realms of possibilities.
  • leont
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    They look like Germans to me but I am no expert.

    The Japanese apparently treated their prisoners very well during WW1. Some even stayed in Japan at the end of the war. So letting the officers carry there swords is not beyond realms of possibilities.
    • Created on Jun 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM
    • #388950
    Ok... Thank you very much for clarification... :wink2:

    Regards...
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    Ok... Thank you very much for clarification... :wink2:

    Regards...
    • Created on Jun 3, 2012 at 2:31 PM
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  • leont
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    • Created on Jun 3, 2012 at 5:29 PM
    • #388966
    Indeed...

    That sounds reasonable.

    Hat and trousers are different and that might be Japanese soldier checking arrived packages.

    Grazie mille... :wink2:

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