The Nightmarish Construction Of The Burma Trainline | Moving Half The Mountain

I appreciate the honesty and matter of factness of this program. This is history that should not be forgotten. I will not forget it! If you do not learn the history lessons of the past it is sure that history will repeat itself.

I remember turning up at Dads on a Suzuki motorbike, and an old timer was there.
He took one look at the tank and never spoke to me again. I hadn't the heart to tell him I had a Toshiba telly, and Hitachi hi fi. But by then (1985) British meant rubbish and Japanese was top class.

Those Japanese Soldiers are lying thru their teeths!

I read one case when the Japanese surrendered, one American P.O.W.litereally tore one of his Japanese tormentors apart. He really did that.

At 51min11sec into this film the compensation mentioned which was offered to British exPOW or their widows was too little too late and certainly too late for my father who died in 1974. My mother died in 1990; more than 48years since Dad was taken as a Japanese Prisoner of War. Even at that point in time absolutely none of this compensation had been received by the POWs or their widows.

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Jeesus not one of the Japanese will tell yhe truth even aftercall this time, they cannot admit how cruel they were

It a single apology from the Japs, evil so-and-so’s.

12000 indians out of 45000 Indian pow buried under these railway tracks. Every km 28 POW are buried. As for the rest were used as live targets, Experimented, eaten alive or roasted and than eaten. Even the INA OF BOSE WERE EATEN BY THESE CANNIBAL JAPANESE.

Japanese soldiers were cowards. They tortured raped murdered so much innocent ppl. You'd think they are at their death beds and would apologize ask for forgiveness. But nope. Still too cowardly to admit the truth. COWARDS!!!!

Rip Mr Urquhart.

My dad was mistreated during WWII Cleveland for having an East Asian face since Hungarians have an East Asian Heritage.

Heinlein as penname MacDonald in of January thru March 1941 "Astounding" was typical of Roosevelt's racism of "Asian villainy" so book "Special effects" by Finch describes how Allied militaries during WWII were number one purchasers of image optical printers since 1935 to 1945 was mythologized by both White Supremist Australia and by Communists who labeled technicians or engineers as "Japanese collaborators".

Roosevelt's henchmen used incendiary flamethrowers of premeditated homicides while Hitler's henchmen used Zyklon B Delousing Chambers of involuntary negligence homicides since even Charles Lindberg objected to such a double standard of hypocrisy.

Complete faked racist lies of Politically Correct Popular hate speech to have incited Detroit autoworkers murder of Vincent Chin with baseball bats so please apologize to Asian Pacific islanders.

Japan had sulfur fueled steam filled airships with ceramic fuel hopper burners and cryogenic liquified deuterium fueled rocket powered aluminum gliders for rooftop hangars with Ground based STOL fans due to a lack of quality ferrous iron having too much carburized silicate for rail transit tracks amid surpluses of chemicals and silk since mountainous terrain of East Asia during the early 1940s was often too steep full of jagged waterfalls even for cog railways.

Even Europeans used Decauville portables since iron was often easily stolen with a rasp file to cause derailments so why would they squander iron on locomotives with rail transit tracks?

By Fall of 1945 mountains where leveled to detriment of hydroelectric as even cyclotrons where dumped into Lake Hakone to impose rail transit tracks and agriculture imports on East Asia.

Just watched this for the first time. Sort of an apologist angle to help humanize the Japanese. You cannot say Korean auxiliaries were responsible for the atrocities or the Imperial Japanese Army boot camps were harsh creating Japanese vengeful soldiers who tortured prisoners. Pure and simple it was the Japanese goal to demean and vilify Anglo prisoners even if it meant dishonor later. Great credit to the veterans who forgave, yet I understand those who would not. Poignant that reparations are available when most of the survivors have well passed on already.

My grandads cousin perished here building the railway. In memory of Private Francis William Crombleholme aged 24, a gunner in the Royal Artillery

This is sad and it's not right.
As I listen to their stories all I could think about is how the British did the exact same thing to indigenous people across the world literally Right up to the months of world war II and after and long before.

I am not saying any of it is right All of it is wrong no matter who's doing it but it's something that did cross my mind.

Kinda like black slaves?

80 years later the Japanese still in denial

Horrible c**ts

Most Japanese old soldiers still in denial.

amazing hearing all these terrible stories

1000% gods fault
Amen

These were the lucky ones that did get rescued my grandad was in camp 1 when it was bombed. He was presumably missing. He made his own way back no British government gave him a ride home. 1952 he got back. I do feel they left him without a care with all what everyone was put through. They deserved so much more! Even in death.

My Father in Law was in the Philippine Scouts and the Bataan Death March. Also imprisoned.

imagine this happened to women. they'd fight another war over it. lucky how disposable men are

My uncle was a POW, he was taken prisoner at Singapore and spent most of his time in Tiawan he was liberated on the 9 September 1945.

Alistair Urquhart - The Forgotten Highlander. He was a POW and I have to say, reading his experience being captured in Singapore and building the Kwai Bridge and railway I will never forget. Like all POW's he was gagged ffrom revealing what the Japanese did, but please read his book, do honour to the men who died.

My grandad was in changi camp !!

She was able to get back to the ship and San

If only percival is good in strategizing the battle and britain equipped their forces in Malaya well, as a Malaysian, we knew how cruel the japanese are, they didn't just killed thousands pows but also Chinese and malay civilians and in this time also we lose respect to the British and we finally we need independence

Jack sure is an optimist. He can see humour where many can not.

My great grandma was a nun in Singapore when japes took her. She said she was take in to a barracks with 200 Japanese army troops she was only woman. My grandma found her letters after she passed away. I read a few of them. Can not be told the horror she went thru.

Japan was based back then.

My grandfather was a POW in Burma. He was captured in Singapore. He ended up a double amputee, one of only two to survive. I know he was operated on by an Australian surgeon. They had no anaesthetic, he was held down by 4 men, and told to bite down on a piece of bamboo. His life expectancy was 3 weeks. He passed away age 97, and still asked for the last post to be played.
Still get emotional about it all, and he didn't tell us all that much.

Japanese like to talk about honor, lying about treatment of POW's is not honorable.

I'm so glad Japan got a free pass! Where is the justice?

I understand why veterans of the pacific war might not like Japanese people to this day. The war on the pacific front made the war in Europe look like paradise in comparison. The soldiers fought viciously even pretending to surrender or to be dead only to suddenly ambush the medics that went to go treat them it got so bad that the soldiers began shooting surrendering soldiers on site and making sure all the bodies on the ground were actually dead.

💂 VETERAN...THERE AN EVIL RACE OF PEOPLE WITH THE CODE OF BUSHIDO...LOOK AT THERE PRISONS NOWADAYS...!!!EVIL EVIL

Sad to see some of the Japanese veterans trying to justify their actions - clearly not all were brutal or sadistic - but the training they had brutalised them - also the Koreans were treated as inferiors and took out their frustrations on the POWs.... Still think too many Japanese senior officers got away with appalling War Crimes!

My gramps best mate was moved from thailand to work in japan, and got sunk and killed by american sub... His chances might have been greater building this railway...

All I see is a bunch of lying old sadistic Japanese guards that should have faced war crimes tribunals and hung.

French novelist Pierre Boulle was also a prisoner of war in the Japanese army. He is the original author of the movie "The Bridge on The River Kwai".
He is also the original author of "Planet of the Apes". lol
Historically, "what if" is unlikely, but if Japan's "Racial Equality Proposal" at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 is accepted, no tragedy will occur.

'if the POWs behave they not get sick'. Unbelievable they still think that way. Has Japan ever apologised to the ex POWs?

Rest in peace to everyone who lost their lives on the railway lest we forget

A great movie "Bridge Over The River Kwi" shows the treatment of allied prisoners; the Japanese were very brutal.

i love when the Japanese and ally vets met up 40+ years on and there was some closure. too bad that wasn't done here. missed opportunity.