The strange tale of a Nazi holdover in Shanghai (!) in which the Nazi party won a free election (!!) after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe.
Also, the almost equally strange tale of how Hitler at the very end of the war officially turned the German town of Sigmaringen into French territory. Vichy French, to be exact. Both Nazi Germany, Mussolini´s rump "Social Republic" and Japan established embassies there. There was just one problem: the head of the Vichy regime, Petáin, initially refused to relocate to Sigmaringen and even when forced to do so, refused to actively participate in its governmental affairs...
Somehow, the Shanghai story is the stranger of the two, but both videos - introduced by a British historian - are worth watching.
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