Pictures
- Shown below are historical pictures of the German Kreigsmarine in Asia during WW2.
Click on the links below to view the pictures.
- Pre-WW2 German Japanese Collaboration
- Uboat U511
- Uboat U859
- Uboat U861
- Uboat U862
- Uboat U178
- Uboat U181
- Uboat U219
- Hilfskreuzer Thor
- Singapore - Then & Now
- Penang, Malaysia - Then & Now
- Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof , German War Memorial @ Tjikopo, Indonesia
- Meeting the German war veterans
- 2 maps by the German High Navy Command (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine)
- Ostindischer Archipel - MALACCA STRASSE UND NÖRDLICHER TEIL DER WESTKÜSTE VON SUMATRA - Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, 1:1.000.000, 1941, 31,XIl (new edition 1936, based on the 1910, model), Klasse IV, 110 x 77 cm - Map with round stamp "Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Kartengruppe" on both sides and an update stamp "XII.41." on the back - The map, printed on medium-weight paper, is in excellent condition. It includes the Penang and Sabang U-Boote Bases, as well as the British colony of Singapore - courtesy of www.kartengruppe.it
- Ostindischer Archipel. SINGAPORE bis BANKA STRASZE , Maszstab, 1:500 000. - Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine - Leipzig & Berlin: Giesecke & Devrient for Dietrich Reimer (Andrews & Steiner), 1941. An exceedingly rare World War II sea chart of the Singapore and Banka Straits, amongst the world’s most strategically vital sea passages, made by Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (German Navy High Command) on the eve of the Japanese Invasion of Southeast Asia, one of the seminal maps that would have been given to the commanders of the ‘Monsoon Group’ of German U-Boats that operated in the Indian Ocean and Asia Pacific waters – the present example being a ‘headquarters’ copy from the Wilhelmshaven Naval Yard, Germany’s largest U-boat base. Monochrome print, with some navigational marks heightened in original yellow stencil, with red pastedown label to lower left corner, with several handstamps, as is common with Third Reich Era sea charts (Very Good, overall clean and crisp, just a small tear in left-hand blank margin closed from verso by old patch repair), 88.5 x 70 cm (35 x 27.5 inches). - from Antiquariat Daša Pahor
