Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
During the Holocaust, death marches (German: Todesmärsche) were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people. Most death marches took place toward the end of World War II, mostly after the summer/autumn of 1944.
Budget. over $800,000 [1] Tomorrow, the World! is a 1944 black-and-white film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Fredric March, Betty Field, and Agnes Moorehead, about a young German boy (Skip Homeier) who had been active in the Hitler Youth who comes to live with his uncle in the United States, who tries to teach him to reject Nazism.
The March (1945) A drawing of Australian POWs being marched through Germany during the winter of 1944-45. " The March " refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. From a total of 257,000 western Allied prisoners of war held in German military prison camps, over 80,000 POWs were forced to ...
The Mortal Storm. Frank Borzage. One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. 1940. United States. The Great Dictator. Charlie Chaplin. A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis.
Sandakan Death Marches. Sandakan POW camp on 24 October 1945, a few months after the camp was destroyed by the retreating Japanese troops. In No. 1 compound (pictured), graves containing the bodies of 300 Australian and British prisoners were later discovered. It is believed they were the men left at the camp after the second series of marches.
In the Pacific theatre, the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces conducted death marches of Allied POWs, including the 1942 Bataan Death March and the 1945 Sandakan Death Marches. The former forcibly transferred 60–80,000 POWs to Balanga, resulting in the deaths of 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American POWs, while the latter caused the ...
Bataan Death March. A burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised litters to carry fallen comrades at Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, 1942, following the Bataan Death March. Exact figures are unknown. Estimates range from 5,500 to 18,650 POW deaths. The Bataan Death March[a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial ...
Budget. $212,000. The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 American psychological supernatural thriller film [1][2][3] directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, produced by Val Lewton, and starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, and Ann Carter. It tells a story about a young girl who befriends the ghost of her father's deceased ...