Bandō prisoner-of-war camp
The Bandō POW camp (板東俘虜収容所, Bandō Furyoshūyōsho) was a prisoner-of-war camp during World War I in the western suburbs of what is now Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. From April 1917 until January 1920, just under a thousand of the 3,900 soldiers of the Imperial German Army, Imperial German Navy, German Marine Corps and Austro-Hungarian Navy who had been captured at the Siege of Tsingtao in November 1914 were imprisoned at the camp. When the camp closed in 1920, sixty-three of the prisoners chose to remain in Japan. The site of the camp was designated a National Historic Site in 2002.
| Bandō POW camp | |
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| Native names Bandō Furyoshūyōsho 板東俘虜収容所 Kriegsgefangenenlager Bandō | |
The museum of the history of Bandō prisoner-of-war camp "Baruto-no-niwa" | |
| Location | Naruto, Tokushima, Japan |
| Coordinates | 34°9′33″N 134°29′47″E |
| Area | 37,079.20 sq meters |
Bandō POW camp Bandō prisoner-of-war camp (Japan) | |
National Historic Site of Japan | |
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