Yang Kyoungjong

Yang Kyoungjong
Allegiance
Service/branch
Years of service
  • 19??–1939 (IJA)
  • 1942–1943 (Red Army)
  • 1943–1944 (Wehrmacht Heer)
Battles/wars
Korean name
Hangul
양경종
Revised RomanizationYang Gyeong(-)jong
McCune–ReischauerYang Kyŏngjong
Japanese name
Kanaヤン・キョンジョン
RomanizationYan Kyonjon
Russian name
RussianЯн Кёнджон
RomanizationYan Kyondzhon

Yang Kyoungjong (Korean: 양경종) is purported to have been a Korean man who, according to some historians, served in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and finally the German Wehrmacht during World War II. While some men of apparent East Asian ethnicity served in the Wehrmacht and were captured by Allied forces, this individual's existence and supposed personal history are not substantiated by the historical record.