Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_internee
TIL in WW2, Japan interned 130,000 British, Dutch, and American civilians. 14,000 of them perished as a result
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*Empire of the Sun* is a good film illustrating this fact.
Missing here is the context of the Rape of Nanjing and the overall genocide of mainlanders by the Imperial Japanese leading up to World War 2 (driven largely by post-industrial pre-modern Japan’s immense need for fossil fuel)
Is that a high percentage for pows? Like for reference how many pows died in Russian, American, German, or uk prisons?
And since they were interns they weren’t even paid, adding insult to injury.