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Hetalia © by Hidekaz Himaruya

(read from right to left)

How baumkuchen came to Japan:

In 1898, the Empire of China leased the port city of Tsingtau (Tsingtao/Kiautschou/Quingdao) to Germany (Deutsches Reich).
As the most successfull, it became the "figurehead"-colony in the german colonial Empire until 1918 (the official german term was "Schutzgebiete" (protectorates)), more than Africa or New Guinea. However, it suffered from the same disadvantage as all german colonies: its input was higher than its output.

The Germans built a lot (e.g. a church and the governmental building seen in the background). Still today, Quingdao-beer is the most famous chinese beer ^^
Tsingtau served as trading station and naval base.

With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Empire of Japan joined the Entente and declared war on Germany.
In September 1914, japanese forces started to besiege Tsingtau. In November the same year, after a heavy struggle, the Germans surrendered.
Among the POWs shipped to camps in Japan was baker a named Karl Joseph Juchheim.
When a exhibition of products took place in Hiroshima in 1917, Juchheim made the first baumkuchen in Japan.
After the end of the First World War in 1918, Juchheim and his wife stood in Japan, opening a bakery and pastry shop.
Baumkuchen became very popular in Japan very quickly and it is until today ^^
(the company "Juchheim" is still today the most famous baumkuchen-producer in Japan)

Germany in the top wears the uniform of an imperial german admiral with the badge of the iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz) in the button-hole. Below, he wears the uniform of the III. Seebattaillon (sea battaillon), the imperial german marines who defended Tsingtau.

Japan below wears the uniform of an imperial japanese general with the Order of the Rising Sun (Kyokujitsu-sho).

Baumkuchen (literally "tree cake") is a ring-formed pastry which is made by baking one layer of dough over the other on a rotating rod.
This leads to the characteristic lines resembling growth-rings of a tree, visible when the cake is cut through (which again leads to its name^^ ).
It's rather complicate to make and expensive to buy but very tasty

Description
Hetalia © by Hidekaz Himaruya

(read from right to left)

How baumkuchen came to Japan:

In 1898, the Empire of China leased the port city of Tsingtau (Tsingtao/Kiautschou/Quingdao) to Germany (Deutsches Reich).
As the most successfull, it became the "figurehead"-colony in the german colonial Empire until 1918 (the official german term was "Schutzgebiete" (protectorates)), more than Africa or New Guinea. However, it suffered from the same disadvantage as all german colonies: its input was higher than its output.

The Germans built a lot (e.g. a church and the governmental building seen in the background). Still today, Quingdao-beer is the most famous chinese beer ^^
Tsingtau served as trading station and naval base.

With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Empire of Japan joined the Entente and declared war on Germany.
In September 1914, japanese forces started to besiege Tsingtau. In November the same year, after a heavy struggle, the Germans surrendered.
Among the POWs shipped to camps in Japan was baker a named Karl Joseph Juchheim.
When a exhibition of products took place in Hiroshima in 1917, Juchheim made the first baumkuchen in Japan.
After the end of the First World War in 1918, Juchheim and his wife stood in Japan, opening a bakery and pastry shop.
Baumkuchen became very popular in Japan very quickly and it is until today ^^
(the company "Juchheim" is still today the most famous baumkuchen-producer in Japan)

Germany in the top wears the uniform of an imperial german admiral with the badge of the iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz) in the button-hole. Below, he wears the uniform of the III. Seebattaillon (sea battaillon), the imperial german marines who defended Tsingtau.

Japan below wears the uniform of an imperial japanese general with the Order of the Rising Sun (Kyokujitsu-sho).

Baumkuchen (literally "tree cake") is a ring-formed pastry which is made by baking one layer of dough over the other on a rotating rod.
This leads to the characteristic lines resembling growth-rings of a tree, visible when the cake is cut through (which again leads to its name^^ ).
It's rather complicate to make and expensive to buy but very tasty