A young girls memory of Concentration Camps in Java

spidge · 27-12-2006, 09:41 AM

This is a story of a young girl in Japanese held Java, and the defeated Japanese fighting side by side with British troops againt the Indonesian Communists post war.

BBC - WW2 People's War - My Experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia.

Kiwiwriter · 29-12-2006, 04:18 PM

That really happened...the Indonesians, under Sukarno, revolted against the Dutch returning to the East Indies. The British and Dutch did not have enough troops to maintain order, so they kept the Japanese forces under arms and used them against the rebels.

Ironically, some of the rebels had started off supporting the Japanese against the Dutch in the first place. Now they fought with their former patrons. Weird.

Thanks for sharing that story. What an experience! Wow!

Marina · 29-12-2006, 04:49 PM

Fantastic story.
Marina

Tijger · 06-01-2007, 01:44 PM

Interesting story. Actually the first Dutch troops arriving in Semerang from was surprised to see they were greated by Japanese drivers and even a Japanese Battalion. Colonel D. R. A. van Langen did not like this. So as soon as posible he made an end to it.

Tom
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27-12-2006, 09:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,068	A young girls memory of Concentration Camps in Java This is a story of a young girl in Japanese held Java, and the defeated Japanese fighting side by side with British troops againt the Indonesian Communists post war. BBC - WW2 People's War - My Experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

29-12-2006, 04:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,443	Fascinating stuff... That really happened...the Indonesians, under Sukarno, revolted against the Dutch returning to the East Indies. The British and Dutch did not have enough troops to maintain order, so they kept the Japanese forces under arms and used them against the rebels. Ironically, some of the rebels had started off supporting the Japanese against the Dutch in the first place. Now they fought with their former patrons. Weird. Thanks for sharing that story. What an experience! Wow! __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

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29-12-2006, 04:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
Marina Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 207	Fantastic story. Marina

06-01-2007, 01:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
Tijger Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 4	Interesting story. Actually the first Dutch troops arriving in Semerang from was surprised to see they were greated by Japanese drivers and even a Japanese Battalion. Colonel D. R. A. van Langen did not like this. So as soon as posible he made an end to it. Tom '+'

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