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Tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners captured by Chinese communists were serving in their military forces in August 1946 and more than 60,000 were believed to still be held in Communist-controlled areas as late as April 1949. [76] Hundreds of Japanese POWs were killed fighting for the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War ...
Japan also held 15,000 French POWs, after it took over French Indochina in March 1945. [12]: 169, 200 [23] [24]: 61 Japan also held a number of Soviet prisoners of war. 87 Soviet POWs were released during a prisoner exchange following the 1939 border clashes Khalkhin Gol (at that point, however, USSR was not a WWII participant). [12]: 40
Pages in category "World War II prisoners of war held by Japan" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 367 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Tikka Khan – Japanese POW during WWII, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistani Army; Wajid Khan – Canadian politician, Pakistan-India War 1971 fighter pilot; Yahya Khan – German POW during WWII, last president of a united Pakistan; Maximilian Kolbe – Roman Catholic priest from Poland, interned in Auschwitz, and canonized as a saint
Japanese POWs: 35,000-50,000 held by the Western Allies; [27]: 61 560,000 to 760,000 were held by the USSR after Japan surrendered [28] Norwegian POWs: while Germans quickly captured Norwegian army following the German invasion of Norway, the Norwegians were quickly released. About 1,500 were arrested in 1943; about 1,000 were held until the ...
An example of Japanese P.O.W. propaganda. The Ōfuna Camp (大船収容所, Ōfuna shūyōsho) was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were incarcerated and interrogated by Japanese naval intelligence. [1]
This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
Oryoku burning after attack on 15 December 1944 about 11 AM. Photo by a Hellcat from USS Hornet shows POWs swimming in the water. Oryoku burning on 15 December 1944.. Oryoku Maru left Manila on December 13, 1944, with 1,620 prisoners of war (including 1,556 American, 50 British and Dutch, 7 Czech, 4 Norwegians and several other nationalities) packed in the holds, and 1,900 Japanese civilians ...