The Japanese treatment of POWs during the Second World War was characterised by its extreme brutality. The fate of the Australian and British POWs transported to Sandakan, in Borneo, marked a particularly tragic example of this behaviour... M Cunningham - 《Australian Defence Force Journal》 被引...
[Moreover, treatment of PWs was harsh in the Korean campaign, unlike the treatment accorded the Japanese in World War II. Perhaps the Chinese were trying too hard to indoctrinate American POWs]. In 1951 the Chinese tried to organize a Peace Committee among American POWs. Many POWs were exploi...
POLLA’S EARLY ENTRIESpaint a mundane picture of camp life, at odds with virtually all postwar accounts of survivors who told of conditions at Cabanatuan as being miserable beyond measure, with brutal treatment by its guards. On January 5, for example, Polla wrote: “Bridge. One banana issued...
government that was beginning to get some political pressure to focus more on the destruction of the Japanese Empire in light of the deteriorating situation in Europe. The second major piece of diplomatic information that came out of the intercept was the clear intention of Berlin to ...
The treatment of POWs angered the United States as well; the notable photo of Australian Sgt. Leonard Siffleet about to be beheaded with a sword didn’t help with anti-Japanese sentiments, which probably began with the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor. G. Similarly to the actions of the ...
'Much Ado About Too Few': Aspects of the Treatment of Canadian and Commonwealth POWs and Civilian Internees in Metropolitan Japan 1941–1945 This paper is largely concerned with the Japanese side of the POW during the Second World War. It raises the question of whether or not the mistreatment...