By the end of World War II there were from 560,000 to 760,000 Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps.[1] Of them, about 10% died (50–60,000), mostly during the winter of 1945–46.[2][3][4][5] The majority of the approximately 3.5 million Japanese armed forces outside Japan were disarmed by the United States and Kuomintang China and repatriated in 1946. Western Allies had taken 35,000 Japanese prisoners between December 1941 and 15 August 1945, i.e., before the Japanese capitulation[6] The Soviet Union held the Japanese POWs much longer and used them as a labor force.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:45:02 +0000
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