some names have been included who were never technically POW. I have included names of all those that died whilst in captivity, those killed by "friendly fire", those that were re-captured after months of freedom, and those that escaped from German camps as the war wound down in 1945, be...
Hi All, is there any way of tracing people that were in POW camps at the end of the war, either as POWs or Displaced Persons? Thanks alanatabz, Dec 14, 2020 #1 travers1940 Well-Known Member I seem to remember a record set fairly recently released on one of the major genealogica...
Published in 1992, it was one of the first English-language accounts in North America about Japanese death camps for women and children in Southeast Asia. I wrote it because I wanted people to know what happened to the innocent civilian POWs during the war.In the Shadow of the Sunis now ...
The Shenyang World War II Allied Prisoners Camp was located in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province. It is the best preserved of more than 200 POW camps established byJapanin the Asian-Pacific region. Among the 2,000 incarcerated in the camp during World War II were soldiers from the Unite...
When it comes to the international airport, it is probably one of the oldest and smallest I’ve ever seen, but then the size makes it easier to find your way around.I arrived in April from not so warm Europe, so the heat struck me straight away. After 2 hours in the long queue to...
in the camps. While they represented a minority of the population they were able to establish control of the camps. They would not tolerate non nazi influence (there were quite a number of political interests in the rank and file of the Wermacht) and they used any method they wanted to ...
Classified as DPs after 1945, they lived in camps administered by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organization (IRO). Under the circumstances, they continued to maintain military-like routines and fiercely refused...
000 Soviet troops captured during the German invasion in 1941 were simply allowed to starve to death. The Soviets replied in kind and consigned hundreds of thousands of German POWs to the labour camps of theGulag, where most of them died. The Japanese treated their British, American, and ...