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Originally Posted by gi_dan2987
I wonder what happened to the Germans who remained in Jakarta when the ceasefire was signed?
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Like all the German crews left stranded in the Far East they likely went into internment and their boats were handed over to the Japanese. The U-boats' crews and base personnel in Malaysia were trucked to an ex-British rubber plantation at Batu Pahat in for internment. The ones in Java likely faced a similar predicament.
At the time of the German capitulation the Japanese fleet commander in Singapore politely invited some German officers to an interview before they were interned. In presence of high ranking Japanese officers he stated in all seriousness that the Japanese armed forces would reconquer Germany. This incident revealed to what extent, that either the Japanese were living in a fantasy world, or were just big into telling their guests what they thought they wanted to hear.