List of World War II television series

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Below is an incomplete list of fictional television series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.

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1950s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19551958United States Navy Log
19561957United States Combat Sergeant Drama-action. North African campaign US Army espionage group
19571957United Kingdom Escape Drama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes
19571958United Kingdom O.S.S. OSS in occupied France
19571958United StatesThe Silent ServiceDrama. USN submarine service

1960s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19601960East GermanyToter Winkel Blind Spot (TV)Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp, guards guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation period after war during 1945 directed by Wolfgang Luderer
19611963United States Alcoa Premiere
"Seven Against the Sea" (1962 episode)
Drama. US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for comedy McHale's Navy
19621963United States The Gallant Men Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign
19621966United States McHale's Navy Comedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign
19621967United States Combat! Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France
19631963United Kingdom Moonstrike The series was an anthology programme: a collection of self-contained stories about acts of resistance in occupied Europe during the Second World War.
19641965United States Broadside Comedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy
19641967United States Gilligan's Island
"So Sorry, My Island Now" (1965 episode)
Comedy. Island is captured by Japanese sailor
"Mine Hero" (1965 episode)Comedy. Wartime sea mine in lagoon
"Forward March" (1966 episode)Comedy. Gorilla armed with wartime grenades
19641967United States Twelve O'Clock High Drama. Missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base and equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High
19651965United States Convoy Drama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter
19651965Poland The Underground Front Podziemny front Polish resistance, 1941–45
19651966United States Mister Roberts Comedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts
19651966United States The Wackiest Ship in the Army Comedy. Spy scow/schooner based in the South Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film The Wackiest Ship in the Army
19651971United States Hogan's Heroes Comedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag
19661966United States Blue Light Drama.
19661966United Kingdom Court Martial Drama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war
19661967United States Jericho Drama. Espionage
19661968United States The Rat Patrol Long Range Desert Patrol
19661970PolandFour Tank Men and a Dog Czterej pancerni i pies Tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–45
19671968United States Garrison's Gorillas Adventure-drama. Allied convicts recruited as commandos behind Nazi lines with offer of a post-war parole and inspired by The Dirty Dozen film; 26 episodes
19671968PolandMore Than Life at Stake Stawka większa niż życie Kapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–45
19681977United Kingdom Dad's Army Comedy. English Home Guard
19691969United Kingdom Manhunt

1970s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19701970East Germany Jeder stirbt für sich allein
19701972United Kingdom A Family at War
19711973Australia Spyforce Action/drama. Australian series about the fictional Special Intelligence Unit (based on the real Services Reconnaissance Department)
19711971East Germany Rottenknechte
19711974GreeceUnknown WarfareO Agnostos Polemos

(Άγνωστος Πόλεμος)

Drama. The adventures of a colonel of the counter-espionage service of Greece during the war. (226 episodes; remade in 1987)
19721973United Kingdom Pathfinders RAF pathfinding missions
19721974United Kingdom Colditz Colditz Castle POW camp
19731973Soviet Union Seventeen Moments of Spring Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (Семнадцать мгновений весны)Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany
19731974United States Roll Out Comedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France
19741974CzechoslovakiaOnce upon a time there was a houseByl jednou jeden důmThe fate of the inhabitants of a house before and during WWII.
19741974Yugoslavia Otpisani
19741975Canada Witness to Yesterday Drama (talk show format). [1] Broadcaster Patrick Watson aggressively "interviews" historical figures, including Norman Bethune († 1939)
19741981United Kingdom It Ain't Half Hot Mum Comedy.
19751977United States
Wonder Woman Action/Drama/Sci-fi. Fictional stories of Wonder Woman battling Nazis.
19751975Poland
Hungary
Third Border Trzecia granica (in Polish)Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary
19751975Yugoslavia The Farm in the Small Marsh
19761976Iran My Uncle Napoleon دایی‌جان ناپلئون Comedy. Tehran under Allied occupation
19761978United States Baa Baa Black Sheep Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War
19761983Australia The Sullivans Drama. The effects World War II has on the lives of an average middle-class Melbourne family
19771978United Kingdom Backs to the Land Comedy. Land Girls
19771979United States Operation Petticoat (Life in the Pink)Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat
19771979United Kingdom
Belgium
Secret Army Drama. Belgian Resistance; followed by 1981 series Kessler
19781981Denmark Matador MatadorFictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947
19781978United States Pearl
19781978Yugoslavia Povratak otpisanih
19781978United States Holocaust
19791979United Kingdom Danger UXB British/PBS Drama centering on a Royal Engineers high explosives disposal unit operating in London defusing un-exploded bombs during the Blitz.
19791979United States Ike

1980s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19801980United States Goodtime Girls Comedy. Women's war effort on the homefront (Washington, D.C.)
19801980East Germany Archiv des Todes
19811981United Kingdom Kessler Drama. Former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 series Secret Army
19811981United Kingdom Private Schulz
19811984United Kingdom
Australia
Tenko Women interned after the Battle of Singapore
19811981Australia A Town Like Alice
19821992United Kingdom 'Allo 'Allo! Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–1944
19821992United Kingdom We'll Meet Again
19831983United States Casablanca Based on film Casablanca
19831983United States The Winds of War Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families
19831983United Kingdom The Fourth Arm
19841984Australia The Last Bastion Mini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II
19841984Ireland Caught in a Free State
19841984East Germany Front ohne Gnade
19841984United Kingdom The Jewel in the Crown The last days of the British Raj during and after WWII in India. Based on the four novels by Paul Scott known collectively as "The Raj Quartet."
19851985AustraliaThe Cowra BreakoutSemi-fictional mini-series about the Cowra breakout, August 1944
19851985Italy Mussolini: The Untold Story
19851985Sweden Rød snø
19851985Australia The Dunera Boys Mini-series based on the Dunera incident, 1940-1941
19851985United States Jenny's War Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941
19851985CzechoslovakiaVlak dětsví a nadějeThe Train of Childhood and ExpectationThe story of a family from the Czechoslovak borderlands in the pre-war period and during the Second World War.
19871987United Kingdom The Diary of Anne Frank
19871987United Kingdom Fortunes of War
19871987Australia Nancy Wake Drama. Mini-series about the exploits of New Zealand born SOE Operative and French Resistance member Nancy Wake
19881988United States
Yugoslavia
Dirty Dozen: The Series [2] Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen
19881988United Kingdom Piece of Cake RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain
19881989United States War and Remembrance Continues the story of The Winds of War starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 7 August 1945
19881991PolandThe Burning Border Pogranicze w ogniu Action-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918 to 1939
19881990United Kingdom Wish Me Luck Drama-espionage. SOE women in German-occupied France
19891989Australia Tanamera – Lion of Singapore Drama based on novel.
19891989Australia
United Kingdom
The Heroes Mini-series about the Allied commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick

1990s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19911991United Kingdom
Australia
Heroes II: The Return Sequel to The Heroes about a second commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Rimau
19921992DenmarkBlackout Mørklægning Thriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and ill
19931993United Kingdom Demob Comedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers
19941994United Kingdom Seaforth Drama. British homefront conman
19941994United Kingdom Which Way to the War Comedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only
19961996United Kingdom Over Here
19971997Singapore The Price of Peace Hépíng de dàijià (和平的代價) Japanese occupation of Singapore
19981998United Kingdom Coming Home (TV serial) Drama. Wartime experiences of Judith, a schoolgirl and young woman.
19981998Czech RepublicThree Kings Tři králové Drama. Resistance efforts in German occupation of Czechoslovakia; seven episodes
19991999Germany Riding the Storm Sturmzeit
19991999Germany Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland Drama based on Charlotte Link trilogy. East Prussian home front through both World Wars [3]

2000s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
20002000United Kingdom Monsignor Renard
20012001United States Anne Frank: The Whole Story
20012001United States Band of Brothers Action-drama. Non-fictional account of "Easy" Company (506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division) from training to war's end, based on Stephen E. Ambrose book
20012001Australia Changi Changi POW camp
20012001Singapore In Pursuit of Peace Hérì Jūn Zàilái (何日军再来) Japanese occupation of Singapore
20012001Singapore A War Diary Zhànzhēng rìjì (战争日记)Romance/Drama. Chinese family during Battle of Singapore and Japanese occupation of Singapore
20012001United Kingdom The Cazalets
20012002United Kingdom The 1940s House
20022015United Kingdom Foyle's War Mystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England
20032003United Kingdom P.O.W. Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940
20042004RussiaRed Orchestra Красная капелла War.
20042004RussiaThe Penal Battalion Штрафбат Action, Drama, Romance, War.
20042004United Kingdom Island at War
20042004Vietnam A Candle in the Imperial Palace Ngọn Nến Hoàng Cung Bảo Đại's point of view during the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina to 1954.
20042005Russia The Cadets Kursanty(Курсанты)
20052005RussiaMan of War Человек войны War.
20052005United Kingdom Colditz
20052005United Kingdom Churchill's Bodyguard
20052006ChinaLiang Jian Liang Jian (亮剑)Campaigns of 18th Army Group and Chinese People's Liberation Army from Sino-Japanese War to Chinese Civil War
20062006Russia
Belarus
The Last Armoured Train Последний бронепоезд
Апошні бронецягнік
Action, History, War.
20062006Vietnam Under The Flag of Great Cause Dưới Cờ Đại Nghĩa From episode 38 to 46, set during the Japanese occupation of Indochina
20062006Canada Above and Beyond
20072007RussiaThe Saboteur 2: The End of the War Диверсант 2: Конец войны History, War.
20072007Poland Fortress of Codes Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów Thriller. Polish and German espionage, 1945
20072007Denmark Nazitübbies NazitübbiesParody. Nazi Teletubbies
20072007Hong Kong War and Destiny Leun sai gai yan (亂世佳人) (in Yue Chinese) Nanjing Massacre
20072007Iran
Hungary
France
Lebanon
Zero Degree Turn Madār-e sefr darajeh (مدار صفر درجه) (in Persian)Drama based on Abdol Hossein Sardari. Iranian student in occupied Paris in love with French-Jewish woman
20082008Russia
Belarus
In June 1941 В июне 41-го Drama, War.
20082008RussiaApostleApostol ( Апостол )Life and treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent
20082008Germany A Woman in Berlin 2 episodescovers the period between 20 April and 22 June 1945 in Berlin during the capture and occupation of the city by the Red Army
20082008EstoniaWindward Land Tuulepealne maa History of Estonia through two families, World War I to 1941
20082008GermanyWilhelm Gustloff Die Gustloff Greatest Disaster of German transport ship wreck by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945.
20082011Poland Time of Honor Czas honoru Cichociemni (SOE agents) and Polish Resistance
20092009RussiaThe Disappeared Исчезнувшие War.
20092009RussiaSecond
Kochubey's detachment
Вторые
Отряд Кочубея
20092009RussiaZastava Zhilina [4] Zastava Zhilina ( Застава Жилина )Romance drama. Set in 1941
2009nowFranceA French Village Un village français Occupied French village, from May 1940 –... (one month per episode)
20092011United Kingdom Land Girls Drama. Land Girls
20092009United Kingdom The Diary of Anne Frank
2009?China My Brother Named Shun Liu Wǒde Xiōngdì Jiào Shùn Liū (我的兄弟叫顺溜)Chinese sniper during the Sino-Japanese War
2009nowChina My Chief and My Regiment Wǒde Tuánzhǎng Wǒde Tuán (我的团长我的团)Drama. Chinese National Revolutionary Army Expeditionary Force in Burma battling Imperial Japanese Army during Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in Sino-Japanese War, 1942

2010s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
20102010United States The Pacific Action-drama. Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre.
20102010Vietnam The Horse Gallops on the Southern Sky Vó Ngựa Trời Nam Vietnamese revolutionary's struggle against French and later Japanese occupation in Cochinchina.
20102010Hong Kong No Regrets (Rosy Business II)巾幗梟雄之義海豪情Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation.
20112011RussiaPeople's Commissariat's convoy Наркомовский обоз
20112011Russia
Ukraine
Ballad About the Bomber Баллада о бомбере War.
20112011Russia 1942 1942Drama. German invasion of Russia and partisans surviving in forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941
20122014Canada Bomb Girls Drama. Canadian homefront and women working in Toronto munitions plant
20122012United Kingdom Restless
20122012RussiaHunting the Gauleiter Охота на гауляйтера Drama, War.
20132013RussiaSpiesРазведчицыDrama, War.
20132013Germany Generation War Unsere Mütter, unsere VäterGroup of friends experience different fate during German 1941 east front campaign.
20132013United Kingdom
Poland
Spies of Warsaw A spy posing as a military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw finds himself drawn into the outbreak of World War II.
20132013BelarusTraces of the Apostles Следы апостолов
Сляды апосталаў
20132014RussiaThe BombБомбаAction, Drama, War.
20142014United Kingdom Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond Mini-series detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
20142014China Battle of Changsha 战长沙Set between 1938 and 1945, depicting Battles of Changsha during Second world war.
20152015RussiaExecutioner Палач Mystery.
20152015RussiaThe Young Guard Молодая гвардия Drama, History, War.
20152017Canada
Hungary
X Company Drama. Canadian, British, and American spies based out of a training facility in Canada carry out missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.
20152015Norway The Heavy Water War Kampen om tungtvannet Based on the operation surrounding the destruction of Nazi heavy water production facility in occupied Norway by the Norwegian Resistance.
20152015Germany Tannbach Fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach, during the ending of the Second World War
20152015FranceResistance Résistance Paris 1940, based on the Groupe du musée de l'Homme
2015nowGeorgiaKerch: The Lost Heroes Kerči: Daḳarguli Gmirebi (ქერჩი: დაკარგული გმირები)Drama. Centered around ethnic Georgians in the Red Army during Crimean Offensive and Battle of the Kerch Peninsula. [5]
20152016United Kingdom Home Fires Drama. Set in a rural Cheshire community called Great Paxford, about the life of Women's Institute members on the Home Front during the Second World War.
20162016United Kingdom My Mother and Other Strangers Drama set in 1943, centering on the townspeople of the fictional village of Moybeg, Northern Ireland, as they come to terms with the influx of thousands of American servicemen.
20162016United Kingdom Close to the Enemy
20162016Japan Tokyo Trial
20162022Russia
Ukraine
Under Military Law По законам военного времени
За законами воєнного часу
Drama, History, War.
20172017RussiaAncestral Land Отчий берег Drama.
20172017Germany Charité (TV series) The plot takes place in 1943 at a hospital under the Nazi regime during World War II and shows how the war affected the doctors, nurses and students at Berlin's renowned learning hospital
20172017United Kingdom The Halcyon
20172017United Kingdom SS-GB
20182018Germany Das Boot
20192019Germany Charité at War It is a sequel of Charité.
20192019United Kingdom World on Fire Drama. Mini-series that follows the hidden lives of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during World War II.
20192019United States
Italy
Catch-22 Comedy, Drama. USAAF in the Italian campaign.
20192019RussiaDeath to Spies СМЕРШ Action, Drama, History, Mystery, War.

2020s

YearYear CountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
20202020RussiaDzhulbars Джульбарс Drama, History, War.
20202020RussiaThe Black Sea Чёрное море Drama.
2020NowRussiaAbout People and About War Про людей и про войну Drama, History, War.
20202020Norway Atlantic Crossing Drama. Evacuation of the Royal Family of Norway during World War II [6]
20202020United States The Liberator Italian campaign
20212021Germany The Defeated Shadowplay Berlin immediately after being divided into allied zones
20202020India The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye China Burma India Theater, Indian National Army against British Raj
20202020United Kingdom Life After Life An English woman experiences an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth in the first half of the 20th century, which includes The Blitz and the destruction of Germany after Allied bombings.
20222022RussiaBarents SeaБаренцево мореMystery, War.
20222022RussiaNo Order to DieПриказа умирать не былоMystery, War.
20222022United Kingdom SAS: Rogue Heroes Origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II.
20222022RussiaSMERSH. ContinuationСМЕРШ. ПродолжениеAction, Drama, History, Mystery, War.
20232023RussiaKatyushaКатюшаDrama, Mystery, War.
20232023RussiaOperation NemanОперация «Неман»Drama, War.
20232023United States All the Light We Cannot See A drama about two teenagers during occupied France during World War II. [7]
20232023RussiaCall sign "Cranes"Позывной «Журавли»Drama, War.
20242024United States Masters of the Air 100th Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force [8]
20242024Philippines Pulang Araw Japanese occupation of the Philippines
20242024United States We Were the Lucky Ones A Polish Jewish family separated by the Invasion of Poland
20242024Italy
Australia
United Kingdom
United States
The Tattooist of Auschwitz A Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
20252025RussiaSmersh. 1944Смерш. 1944
20252025RussiaSo, that's where we're headedЗначит, нам туда дорога

Science fiction and fantasy

YearsCountryMain title
(Alternative titles)
Original title
(Original script)
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19591964United States The Twilight Zone
"The Man in the Bottle" (1960 episode)
Fantasy. Genie turns man into Hitler at the Battle of Berlin, 1945
"A Quality of Mercy" (1961 episode)Fantasy. A racist American officer is turned into a Japanese man during the Philippines Campaign.
19641965United States Jonny Quest
"The Devil's Tower" (1965 episode)
Animated. Nazi war criminal has slave cavemen
19641968United States Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
"Death from the Past" (1967 episode)
SF adventure. Nazis who believe the war has not ended
19661967United States The Time Tunnel
"The Day The Sky Fell In" (1966 episode)
SF adventure. Time travellers at Pearl Harbor the day before
"Invasion" (1966 episode)SF adventure. Time travellers in Cherbourg before D-Day
19661969United States Star Trek
"The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967 episode)
SF drama. Time-travelling Dr. McCoy causes Hitler to win the war
"Patterns of Force" (1968 episode)SF drama. Alien society modelled after Nazi Germany
19751976United States Wonder Woman
(The New Original Wonder Woman / The New Adventures of Wonder Woman) (Season 1 only)
Diana Prince battles Nazi villains; Wonder Woman (TV) spinoff
19801980United States Galactica 1980
"Galactica Discovers Earth" (episode)
SF adventure. V-2 rocket programme receives future technology
19891989United Kingdom Doctor Who Season Twenty Six
"The Curse of Fenric" (4 episodes)
SF adventure. The Doctor and Ace confront an ancient evil, while trying to stop the British Navy and a group of Soviet commandos from destroying each other
19931999United Kingdom Goodnight Sweetheart Comedy-Fantasy. Time traveller living two lives, between 1940's wartime London and 1990s
19992004United States Angel
"Why We Fight" (2004 episode)
Vampires encounter undead U-boat crew
1999presentUnited States Family Guy
"Road to Germany" (2008 episode)
Animated SF comedy. Time-travelling Brian and Stewie in a Warsaw shul , 1 September 1939
20012005United States Star Trek: Enterprise
"Storm Front (Star Trek: Enterprise)" (2004 episode)

SF adventure. Aliens from an alternate timeline join with Nazis to attempt a takeover of Earth while at the same time attempting to return to their native timeline

20042005Japan Zipang Jipangu (ジパング)Anime. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer travelling through time to early days of war
20072020Japan Strike Witches Sutoraiku Wicchīzu (ストライクウィッチーズ)Anime. Set on an alternate Earth that being invaded by aliens call the "Neuroi", most of Witches are based on the World War II flying aces
20082010Japan Hetalia: Axis Powers Hetaria Axis Powers (ヘタリア Axis Powers)Anime. Characters as national personifications of wartime countries
20112011United Kingdom Doctor Who Sixth Series
"Let's Kill Hitler" (episode)
SF adventure. Time travellers lock Hitler in a cupboard, 1938
2015TBAJapan Kantai Collection Kantai Korekushon -KanKore- (艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-)Anime. Set in a world with the monsters from the deep sea called the "Abyssal Fleet", all Fleet Girls are based on the World War II warships
20162016Japan Izetta: The Last Witch Shūmatsu no Izetta (終末のイゼッタ)Anime. Set in an alternate Earth with a story based on World War II, featuring a witch that possesses the ability to magically manipulate any object that she touches
20182018Japan Katana Maidens: Toji No Miko Toji no Miko (刀使ノ巫女)Anime. Set in the modern time, however the story also focuses on a project dated from near the end of the World War II
20192019Japan Azur Lane Azūru Rēn (アズールレーン)Anime. Set in the world that being invaded by the mysterious creatures called the "Siren" and other nations fight each other, all ships are based on the World War II warships
20232024South Korea Gyeongseong Creature (1st season)Gyeongseong Keulicheo (경성크리처)Set in 1945, where Unit 731 experiments created monsters underground in Gyeongseong, when Korea was still under Japanese occupation

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