Hell on Earth: Sandakan - Australia's greatest war tragedy

摘要

The Japanese treatment of POWs during the Second World War was characterised by its extreme brutality. The fate of the Australian and British POWs transported to Sandakan, in Borneo, marked a particularly tragic example of this behaviour. Of the approximately 2,500 personnel held at Sandakan at the start of 1945, only six survived. Most perished when they were force-marched over a 256-kilometre route through the interior of Borneo, between Sandakan and Ranau.