Shown below are historical pictures, videos ,e-books & pdf documents of my research that covers all German activities in Asia during WW2. *Updated as of 13th July 2026* - by ibrahim ahmad
Shown below are pdf documents & news articles concerning the U-Boats Operations In Asia. ( Click on the pdf icon to view the documents )
Summary of German submarines in Asia , U-Boats in the Far East by David Oearn
A U-Boat Far From Home, Memoir by Dietrich Hille, ex Leutnant U181
Wrack von deutschem Unterseeboot U168 vor Indonesien gefunden (Die Welt - 21 Nov 2013)
"U168 - Memburu Sang Pemburu" (National Geographic Indonesia - May 2014 edition)
Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung (Nummer 43) vom 28.10.1943
Monsun U-boats in the Indian Ocean and the Far East by Marcin Jedrzejewski
U-Boat Operations in the Indian Ocean and the Far East by Chuck Roberts
UBoat Base, Penang by by Khoo Salma Nasution
Axis Uboats In Far-Eastern Waters by Dr R. Riviera
Die Geschichte des Deutschen Soldatenfriedhofs Arca Domas In Indonesien
News-Artikel über das Wrack der Unterseeboot U859 - Location: 05.49.254N , 100.02.466E
German U-Boats in the Indian Ocean by Kapitaen sur See Kurt Freiwald
In den Fernen Osten - Lawrence Paterson
The Indonesian Declaration Of Independence typewritten on a Kriegsmarine typewriter
A Pre-WW2 German plane (Arado Ar.79) in Bali, Indonesia 1938
Arados in Ostasien - Ulrich Israel and Detlef Billig ( FliegerRevue Extra )
A Pre-WW2 German-Japanese Youth Exchange Badges by Wilhelm P.B.R. Saris
An account of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth delegation) visiting Japan , in November 1940
Captain Bernhard Rogge's Samurai Sword @ Maritime Museum Hamburg , Germany
Kollektives Gedächtnis , In Indonesia und Japan 1940/45 - Manfred Müller
Torpedoes in Paradise by Noah Andre Trudeau
News article of a recent visit to New Zealand of Dr Ingrid Heiter-Reiffenstuhl, the daughter of the U862 First officer and her officiating at the unveiling of a U862 memorial plaque in Gisborne NZ
When Penang Was an Axis Submarine Base By Eugene Quah - December 2023
UBoot Im Focus Nr 5 - Die japanische Erinnerungsmedaille für deutsche U-Bootfahrer im Indischen Ozean (The Japanese Commemorative Medal for German Submariners in the Indian Ocean) By Wolfgang Ockert
Research paper: "Gruppe Monsun – The U-Boat operations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans during World War II" by Christian Keimer (a retired German Air Force Lieutenant Colonel). It breaks down the Command & Control (C2) failures and evaluates whether the massive expenditure of German resources in the Far East was strategically justified.
U-168 Allied Interrogation Report - This document (Allied Translator and Interpreter Section Report No. 676) covers the five prisoners captured after U-168 was torpedoed by a Dutch submarine off the coast of Java. Of interest , Section I.G. No. 3850 contains explicit notes detailing that the German prisoners "felt no patriotic responsibility towards Japan" and outlines deeply strained German-Japanese relations in Java. It also logs a severe summer 1944 cholera outbreak in "Old Batavia" (Jakarta) that crippled operations, as well as the complete reliance on local fuel stores at Penang and Batavia.
This article discusses a rare 1941 German nautical chart of the Singapore and Bangka straits, currently held in the National Library of Singapore. The map, produced by the Kreigsmarine, highlights the strategic importance of these waterways during World War II and provides insight into German military mapmaking and their historical presence in Southeast Asia.
