Japanese Prisoner of War Camps
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The British Port of Singapore was an impenetrable fortress where they held their navy in the south Pacific. This was true for all but one side which the British felt that it was sure was not able to be used as an attack route. The Japanese did not see it this way and therefore led their attack troops past Malaya and into Singapore. 15000 British and Australian troops surrendered to the Japanese and were made Japanese prisoners of war. This was the biggest naval catastrophe in British History.
The Japanese 'Prisoner of war Camps' were the toughest in the world and the most unheard of. For comparison in Germany only 3% of Australian soldiers who were captured died there, in Japanese camps 34% died.
The numbers of men that died were a cause of the dreadful conditions that they were forced to live in. There was a lack of adequate food; this was so bad that men lost all fat from their bodies. There was the tropical diseases of which the men were not immune to, such as malaria and Dengu Fever...