Interesting AXIS photo Ostfront

[NickG]

Interesting AXIS photo Ostfront, found on the web...

Shows Wehrmacht troops with a Japanese officer and a Hungarian officer
in front of a POW cage with Russian troops!
The picture is from 1942. The officer described as Hungarian actually has a German officers side cap
with soutache clearly visible and his double clay officers belt looks German???

[Klaus1989]

Look German to me. Nothing about uniform look Hungarian and part of breast eagle is even visible.

[Semovente]

Very interesting photo NickG...some sort of military mission with the Jap officer!..to me it looks like a German tunic..Summer issue by the lighter shade of cloth..cheers .

[MarcoPennisi]

The dude on the right looks like wearing a German uniform, possibly a lightweight custom tailored tunic. I'd expect two front buttons and no distinctive German "silver" piping on his supposedly Hungarian o/s cap.
I'm curious on the lettering on the Jap's brassards. Could it be a specialist reporter rather than a military observer?
MP

[Elnar]

Very interesting photo NickG...some sort of military mission with the Jap officer!..to me it looks like a German tunic..Summer issue by the lighter shade of cloth..cheers .

He is 1st. Lt. Sunji Sasamoto at the Hungarian War Correspondent Company!! The armband is a green one, with red border and white letters HADITUDÓSÍTÓ SZÁZAD (war correspondent company, in Hungarian)
The chest sign is a winged torch.

[NickG]

He is 1st. Lt. Sunji Sasamoto at the Hungarian War Correspondent Company!! The armband is a green one, with red border and white letters HADITUDÓSÍTÓ SZÁZAD (war correspondent company, in Hungarian)
The chest sign is a winged torch.

Good info. The Officer in the light colored tunic was described as Hungarian in the caption which is wrong. He is indeed a German officer. My guess is Administration...