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First world war heroine nurse who was executed for helping allied prisoners to escape?
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∙ 15y ago
Edith Cavell is the name. She was shot by the Germans as a spy. Of course the British deny this, but then that is what the British do !
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Who was the nurse heroine of World War 1 executed for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied territory?
Edith Cavell
What group was targeted in the bataan death march?
Allied prisoners of war
What were death marches?
Where prisoners were forced to march toward a concentration camp or other prison type facility where they were to be executed. Anyone who fell behind or was not well enough to walk was executed on the spot, often being beaten to death. Those who made it to the prison camp were starved or given very minimal food rations then they were worked to death or executed.
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.
What caused the concentration camps to be liberated?
allied forces arrived at the camps and freed the prisoners
What is the total prisoners of war in the great raid?
Approximately 500 Allied POW's were rescued.
What year did Germanies allies set the people in the concentration camps free?
Germany's allies, known as the axis, did not free the prisoners in camps. The allied armies freed the prisoners.
Thousands of allied prisoners of war died on march to Japanese prison camps?
Yes tousands did in horrible conditions.
Why did allied countries not get involved in helping holocaust victims?
because they were looking after their own people
Who was marching in the bataan death march?
Allied prisoners, mostly American were marched several hundred miles by the Japanese.
What service is provided by Allied Moving?
The service that is provided by Allied Moving include, helping local and people abroad to move their belongings from one place to another or from one country to the other.
The Battle of El Alamein prisoners of war?
In the first Battle in July Allied forces took almost 8,000 German and Italian prisoners. Battle was fierce and in one attack, 26 Australian Brigade had almost 50% casualties.
