<P> Australian POW Leonard Siffleet captured at New Guinea moments before his execution with a Japanese shin gunto sword in 1943 . </P> <Li> <P> Captured soldiers of the British Indian Army executed by the Japanese . </P> </Li> <P> Captured soldiers of the British Indian Army executed by the Japanese . </P> <P> After the French armies surrendered in summer 1940, Germany seized two million French prisoners of war and sent them to camps in Germany . About one third were released on various terms . Of the remainder, the officers and non-commissioned officers were kept in camps and did not work . The privates were sent out to work . About half of them worked for German agriculture, where food supplies were adequate and controls were lenient . The others worked in factories or mines, where conditions were much harsher . </P>

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