Surviving the "Death Railway"

The History Hour - A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays

A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2, plus Hitler's girl guides, how Benidorm became a tourist hotspot, Italian migrant tragedy in post-war Belgium, and the Lake Nyos disaster.Photo: Allied Prisoners of War in a Japanese prison camp 1945 (British Pathé)

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