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Japanese POW camp was a little slice of home

An enlightened policy of treating World War I prisoners leniently helped seal the relationship between Japan and Germany

AFP , NARUTO, JAPAN

The German soldiers reciprocated by teaching local residents how to practice dairy farming, bake bread and build Western-style houses and stone bridges.

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