* Chiang Wei-kuo








Chiang Wei-kuo (1916-97)


Figure 1.--This is Chiang Wei-kuo at 8 years old with his adopted father Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in 1924.

Chiang Wei-kuo, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son had a fascinating life, especiallyb his eraly life. He was born in Jaopna while the KMT was exiled there. His father had an affair with a Japanese woman and beleving that this would ruin his and the boy's future in China, asked Chaing to adopt him. Wei studied economics at Soochow University. He and his brother, Chiang Ching-kuo, then studied at Moscow University. The KMT at the time was seen as a revolutionaru political movement. And Stalin did not trust Mao, meaning the Chinese Communists were a rare fireign Communist Party tha he coulkd not control. Once in Moscow, the boys would be held as basically political prisoners by the NKVD on the orders of Stalin. When Ching managed to get them back, he sent Wei to NAZI Germany for military training. He was commissioned as a Unteroffizier in the Wehrmacht. He commanded a panzer unit during the Austrian Anschluss (1938). He was then preparing to see action in the German invasion of Poland. By this time, however, German-Japanese cooperation was well established and he was recalled home to China (1939). He returned home to China through the United States during which time he gave lectures to U.S. Army groups on German Panzer (armored) tactics. Once back in China he partcipated both in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Civil War. After the Communist victiory, he escaped with his father to Taiwan and played an imoportant role in the Nationalist Goverment.






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