One of the most interesting Prisoners of War taken by the Allied powers was a Korean soldier that served in the German Wehrmacht. He had only recently fought on the side of the Germans, however. Before that, he fought in the Japanese Imperial Army in Mongolia and the Soviet Union's Red Army in Ukraine.

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0:53 Yang Kyoungjong

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Sources:

https://www.piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/antony-beevor-yang-kyoungjong
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/the-mystery-of-yang-kyoungjong-the-only-soldier-to-have-fought-on-three-sides-of-a-war
https://allthatsinteresting.com/yang-kyoungjong
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/koreans-captured-at-d-day.html

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