Naruto Doitsukan — Bandō camp museum (鳴門市ドイツ館) 鳴門市ドイツ館
On 1 June 1918, German prisoners here gave the first performance of Beethoven's Ninth in Japan.
From April 1917 to April 1920 the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp held about a thousand German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers captured in the siege of Qingdao (1914); 63 chose to stay in Japan when it closed. National Historic Site since 2002. The museum, opened in 1972 and rebuilt in 1993 in a style recalling Lüneburg town hall, preserves its memory.
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