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Did any Australian prisoners of war escape from Japanese camps?
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∙ 11y ago
outof the 2434 prisoners captured and killed in the three death marches, 1787 were Australian. The remaining 641 were British. Only the six Australians who escaped from the Sandakan Death March survived
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How were Australian prisoners treated compared to the prisoners generally treated in Japanese POW camps?
Australian POWs were treated as appallingly as other whites in Japanese camps. They were used as slave labour.
How did Holocaust prisoners escape?
Sometimes the riots let prisoners escape into the woods around their camps.
What has the author Leslie G Hall written?
Leslie G. Hall has written: 'The blue haze' -- subject(s): Australian Personal narratives, Burma-Siam Railroad, Concentration camps, History, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Personal narratives, Australian, Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, World War, 1939-1945
What did the POWs have to do in the camps?
Japanese and most German prisoners remained confined to Allied camps. Many Italian prisoners were allowed out to work on farms in Britain and Australia and in many cases left the camps for the duration of the war. As for Allied prisoners in Axis hands, the Japanese and to a lesser extent the Germans required prisoners to work, in the case of the Japanese, often to death.
How did prisoners escape from concentration camps?
they really just dont or they may get killed
Did any prisoners in hiding in concentration camps escape to other countries?
yes
Why did prisoners in POW camps regularly try to escape?
It is considered a duty for men of honor.
What happened to Australian POWs in Japanese camps?
Australians had the highest survival rate of all the allies held by the sadistict japanese. Even though they had the highest survival rate, only six people survived in the Sandakan Death March.
What did the Japanese in the internment camps do?
They were prisoners because we thought they were spices and were considered a threat in to National Security.And Americans just put them into Camps to be watch after what they did to pearl harbor.
Thousands of allied prisoners of war died on march to Japanese prison camps?
Yes tousands did in horrible conditions.
What were Japanese POW camp conditions for Australian soldiers in World War 2?
Absolutely disgraceful , just as they were for the British, American and other allied groups which included civilians from the same countries. They were starved, in Changi and other camps they resorted to eating rats for example, if they could find any. Torture was prevalent and beheading was common. To a westerner the Japanese were sadists and to this day are typically hated by people who were associated with the war. The Japanese tested out poisons on the pows and specifically used separate limbs which meant chopping limbs of them. After there were no remaining limbs they would through their torsos out in to the snow
What were the worst Japanese prison camps for Americans in World War 2?
Possibly the POW Camp in Bataan, as that was one of the first POW camps for the allies, and one of the first experiences for Japanese forces on the handling of Prisoners of War.
