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Selina Schultze


Free Account, Berlin

in Memory of...

... 6,982 Australian, Dutch and British war prisoners who lost their lives during the construction of the Death Railway.

In 1943 thousands of Allied Prisoners of War (PoW) and Asian labourers worked on the Death Railway under the imperial Japanese army in order to construct part of the 415 km long Burma-Thailand railway. This railway was intended to move men and supplies to the Burmese front where the Japanese were fighting the British.

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