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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.
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∙ 17y agoMany Australian and other prisoners were forced by the Japanese to help build the Burma (Death) Railway. (See the well known film "The Bridge on the River Kwai").
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∙ 18y agoCheck out the pbs.org website. There should be a list of camps listed under " Children of the Camps".
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∙ 14y ago29,000 in Axis POW camps and 14,000 in Japanese camps .
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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.
What was the difference between Australian POW's caught by the Japanese and POW's caught by the Germans?
Japanese treatment of POW's was far more brutal when compared to German treatment of POWs (bear in mind, Aussies were not of the same ethnicity as Pole or Russian soldiers, who received the worst treatment from Germans). Japan used POWs for slave labor (eg:Burma-Thai Railroad, "Bridge over River Kwai") and were subjected to vivisections, experiments, and overall barbaric treatment. A simple statistic illustrates the difference most clearly. 98% of POWs returned from German POW camps 73% returned from Japanese camps.
Name given to the brutal movement of American POWs by Japanese to prisoner of war camps after the surrender of corregidor in the Philippines?
Bataan Death March.
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 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 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.
Were there Russian POWS in the Russo-Japanese War?
At POW camps in Japan.
Japanese attitudes to Australian POWs in World War 2?
yes
List of American pows that survived the Japanese pow camps was the name vernon west on any of the lists?
Begin your research with websites concerning WW2 POW camps. Go to www.mansell.com Extensive lists and rosters for Japanese POW Camps
What was the difference between Australian POW's caught by the Japanese and POW's caught by the Germans?
Japanese treatment of POW's was far more brutal when compared to German treatment of POWs (bear in mind, Aussies were not of the same ethnicity as Pole or Russian soldiers, who received the worst treatment from Germans). Japan used POWs for slave labor (eg:Burma-Thai Railroad, "Bridge over River Kwai") and were subjected to vivisections, experiments, and overall barbaric treatment. A simple statistic illustrates the difference most clearly. 98% of POWs returned from German POW camps 73% returned from Japanese camps.
Were Japanese POWs captured by Americans transported to camps in the US?
Yes and they were raped by the bed intruder you can run and tell that, homeboy
Name given to the brutal movement of American POWs by Japanese to prisoner of war camps after the surrender of corregidor in the Philippines?
Bataan Death March.
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 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.
Short and Long term consequences for Australian soldiers captured by the Japanese?
See: "Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific." (1996) by Gavan Daws; ISBN 0-6881-4370-9.
Treatment of Australian POWs in PNG by Japanese?
The Japanese considered surrender by their own soldiers a disgrace and liable to extreme punishment. They considered enemy prisoners the same way, and used them as slave labour. Some were executed wantonly.
What were the really big different between the japenes camp and the concentration camps in wartime nazi Germany?
It is unclear whether you mean the Japanese internment camps in the USA or the POW camps in Japan, as comparisons are often made with both, so i will answer both questions: Nazi concentration camps were camps for civilians, designed to keep certain sections of society out of the way, as were the Japanese internment caps. The really big difference between the two was how people were treated, in the Nazi camps people were used as slave labour and killed, in the American camps people were allowed to live with their families and suffered no greater persecution. Japanese had not signed the Geneva convention (despite what 'Bridge on the River Kwai' said), so felt no obligation to treat the POWs well, in fact they viewed soldiers who surrendered as unworthy, so the felt justified in mistreating the POWs. The really big difference is that they were military institutions.
