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The high death rate of Allied prisoners of war in the Pacific compared with those in Europe is commonly used to signify the barbarous way in which the Japanese fought the Second World War. This study examines the extent to which 'friendly fire' inflated the death rate of Allied prisoners under the Japanese, and evaluates more broadly the perceived disparity between Japanese and German treatment of ...

Includes index. xii, 147 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Millions of former German soldiers (known as Heimkehrer, literally "homecomers," or returnees) returned from captivity as prisoners of war at the end of the Second World War, an experience that had profound effects on German society and touched almost every German family. Based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history ...

The author was a missionanry in New Guinea. Reprinted, 1958. 192 pages ; 23 cm

Testimony, handwritten, three pages, about life in Minsk region of Belarus, German invasion, service in Red Army, capture as POW in 1944, life in Hammerstein camp and as forced laborer in Ulm, and liberation.

01:18:49 (LIB 6194) General Meets General, Delitzsch, Germany, April 28, 1945. SEQ: Maj Gen Terry Allen, CG of the 104th (Timberwolf) Div, meets Russian Maj Gen Sohonov, Division Commander of the 118th Div, 34th Corps, 5th Russian Army. The officers speak to one another through an interpreter. 01:20:00 (LIB 6195) Displaced Persons Camp, Camp Kray, Germany, May 1, 1945. VS, displaced persons unload ...

Reel 9: Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives. Kalemegdon Park, French Military Museum in BG. Pan across old fortified area overlooking mouth of Sava River; Danube River on right. People lined up in front of various banks to exchange old dinars for new dinars. Sign on bank telling people to exchange money. People leaving bank, guard standing by door. Yugoslavians looking at displays of new dinar ...

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Bibliogr.: p. 378-439. XV, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

This book is a translation of part of Als krijgsgevangene naar de Molukken en Flores (As prisoners-of-war to the Moluccas and Flores) by J.H.W. Veenstra ... et al. - 's-Gravenhage : Nijhoff, 1982. XI, 254 p. : illustrations ; 21 cm