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Long queues of prisoners can be seen passing through the streets with their officers at their heads. They are pale, worried, with sunken cheeks due to long hunger, they are in distress, they are skin and bones. They are executed with rifles, punches and kicks, as if they are despicable animals. They
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Around 10,000 POWs died due to cold, sickness and starvation. Other estimates suggest 20,000 (or 15,000 POW and 5,000 civilians), which is the most popular view. But because of the brutality, the view that the number of death POW and civilians was around 30,000-40,000 was spread among the people of
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