![]() After the war, the Dutch government stated that there had been approximately 110,000 internees. In the course of the war, the Japanese reported to the International Red Cross that there were approximately 98,000 internees. We can therefore only estimate the total number of internees. Number of Dutch civilian internees:ĭata on the numbers of interned civilians in the Dutch East Indies are very incomplete, because almost all Japanese records concerning the internment have been lost, as well as many camp archives. One in four to five of the approximately 2,000 prisoners of war who were taken to the Palembang region for building airfields did not survive. In addition, some 22,000 so-called romushas (Asian forced labourers) were deployed there, about 17,000 of whom died (four out of five). 710-714), 5,500 Allied prisoners of war were put to work on the Pakan Baru railway, 700 of whom died (one in eight). de Jong ( Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (‘The Kingdom of the Netherlands During the Second World War’), vol. (Gavan Daws, Gevangenen van de Japanners Krijgsgevangenen in de Pacific gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog (‘Prisoners of the Japanese Prisoners of War in the Pacific during World War II’, Baarn 1996), p. The American mortality rate was 34%, the Australian 33%, and the British 32%. The average death rate of POWs of all Allied nationalities in the Pacific War was 27%. ![]() KNIL and auxiliary troops: 7.552 deaths (19.6%) ![]() Zwitzer came to the conclusion that a total of 42,233 soldiers in the Dutch East Indies had been taken captive:Ĩ,200 (19.4%) of the total number of 42,233 European prisoners of war died: In 1978, using the data preserved in the archives of the Royal Dutch Navy and the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL), Major drs. de Jong for the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies: ![]()
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