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SINGAPORE FALLS (Patreon)

Published:
2021-02-17 14:29:32
Imported:
2023-06

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This week, what had begun to seem inevitable happens: British (and British Imperial) forces in Singapore surrender to the Japanese. 

The campaign has been a total catastrophe for the British, who have lost several times as many troops as the Japanese, despite outnumbering them. Sumatra, Bali, and Timor are invaded next, and a supporting air raid on Darwin, Australia, brings about serious fears of an invasion there as well. While European colonial honour is devastated by these Japanese victories, they present an even more immediate material threat to the Chinese, who are now at serious risk of losing their vital supply artery. 

In the Soviet Union, not much movement is made on land, but Soviet airborne troops do make another wave of landings behind German lines. These troops have a devastating impact on German supply, communication, and morale, and add yet another item to the growing list of reasons that Germany needs to win this war soon.

To come back to the future for a moment: 

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Files

WW2 - 130 - Britain's Worst Defeat - Singapore Falls - February 20, 1942

The most humiliating defeat in British history according to Winston Churchill- 80,000 men lost as prisoners of war! Humiliated by an enemy far less numerous than themselves! There are many ways to describe the fall of Singapore; these are but two of them. The Japanese are also bombing Australia and invading Sumatra, Bali, and Timor this week, so they are certainly not resting on their laurels. Meanwhile in the Soviet Union, thousands of Red Army paratroops are dropping behind German lines. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?sub_confirmation=1 Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day -https://www.instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ - Adrien Fillon - https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colorisation Sources: - IWM ART: LD 6042, 15747 12, 15747 139, 15747 14 Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: - Rannar Sillard - Easy Target - Fabien Tell - Other Sides of Glory - Rannar Sillard - Split Decision - Gunnar Johnsen - Not Safe Yet - Farrell Wooten - Blunt Object - Howard Harper-Barnes- Underlying Truth - Jo Wandrini - Dragon King - Fabien Tell - Break Free - Christian Andersen - Barrel - Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning - David Celeste - Try and Catch Us Now - Farrell Wooten - Mystery Minutes (STEMS INSTRUMENTS) Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Well, was expecting this for a very long time now, the fall and surrender of my country Singapore, the largest surrender of British Empire troops in history. Worse horrors are about to come soon for the local populace of Singapore (especially Singaporean Chinese) and the 80,000 Allied troops captured in Singapore. The local Chinese will soon have to face the Sook Ching massacres as retaliation from the Japanese for their support in the Second Sino-Japanese War, while the Allied prisoners of war (POWs) will face overcrowding and imprisonment at Selarang Barracks and Changi Prison. Out of the 40,000 captured in Singapore, about 30,000 from the British Indian Army will go on to join the Indian National Army (INA) under Rash Behari Bose and fight alongside the Japanese.

Anonymous

Great episode folks! As always, when I watch these episodes, I think about how much my father, an RCAF veteran shot down on his 13th mission over Germany, would have enjoyed them. He was the sole survivor of his aircraft after bailing out over the Ruhr Valley, escaped as far as Holland before being captured, interrogated by the Gestapo, and interned in Stalag-Luft 13D (and yes, he used to love watching “Hogan’s Heros”, set in Stalag 13, back in the day). He lied about his age to enlist and died five years ago - it won’t be long before the last WWII survivor is gone. Thanks for making these guys - I have a minor in history and, after reading countless books about WWII, thought I was fairly knowledgeable, but I’ve never watched an episode without learning something. Cheers, Lance in Canada

Anonymous

We are still missing a bit on Burma, namely that the Japanese are already there and winning.

Anonymous

Thanks a lot Guys for the very hard work and constant high quality you maintained ! Maybe a question for war on humanity series : how to explain the constant murdering, raping and other war crimes that the Japanese troops committed during the war ? The nazi case is kind of clearer due to to whole de-humanization of Jews, slaves bolcheviks and so on ... for the Japanese who did not have stricto sensu a totalitarian fascist state as you explained in previous episodes, it is less clear how such outrageous behaviors during war times seem accepted or even encouraged (I guess ? Maybe another sub question there). Thanks a lot again !!

Anonymous
>>53822108

From what I can tell, the armed forces, the army in particular were kind of out of control from the Japanese bureaucracy. I think Indy covers this on beetween two wars season one.

Anonymous
>>53817111

Please talk more about both the Japanese and German puppets

Anonymous
>>53822108

True but this seems far more systematic and needlessly cruel without some previous de-humanization process or some forms of underlying ideologies to justify/allow such crimes ...

Anonymous

I have the great privilege of having known a man from my family’s home town of Gatton, QLD Australia. Who became a POW of the Japanese (I’m unsure if it was at Singapore) he was fortunate enough to survive his ordeal, return home and marry the love of his life, only for her family to disown her because she had “the audacity and lack of judgment for a white woman to marry an aboriginal man.” Wankers can not be helped sometimes I guess. But listening to the pacific campaign, and the coming war against humanity episodes that talk about it, I’ll be thinking of this terrific man. The same way I think about my own relative who dies at El Alamein in 1942.

Anonymous

Solid episode covering a major flashpoint in the war. I'm interested to see how War Against Humanity covers the way POWs were treated at the hands of the Japanese.

BAS

Excellent work as always. I've got a question for the Chair of Infinite Knowledge, or just a general subject: How was life in Taiwan during the war? From what I know, there wasn't much sympathy for the ethnic Chinese Republic of China, and most Taiwanese saw themselves as a loyal part of the Japanese Empire - I think there was a political movement to become a proper Japanese Prefecture. Korea, on the other hand, was much more restive. In studying the modern world it's fascinating to me that the US planned to invade Taiwan in 1944/45 - those same beaches they selected back then are likely the ones Mao would target in 1950 and the PLA is looking at today.

Anonymous
>>53822108

In the Japanese military, but especially in the Japanese Army, discipline was enforced through corporal punishment. It wasn't just allowed, it was encouraged. Often it was carried out for no reason. The superior just felt like hitting something. For the lower ranking soldiers, the only people they could attack were prisoners and civilians. similar to how abuse victims tend to become abusers themselves.

ghostman
>>53850460

Oh I guarantee a certain march coming soon will be covered.

BAS
>>53854075

Just for example: Lee Teng-Hui, Taiwan's first democratically elected President, was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. His brother also fought for the Japanese Navy and died in the Philippines fighting the Americans.

Anonymous
>>53854075

Taiwan had a comparatively good war. The news coming out of China was censored by the Japanese and only a few thousand Taiwanese people served in the IJA for most of the war. The Taiwanese had a very white washed view. Furthermore, Taiwan was the bread basket of Japanese empire. The Japanese had purposefully left it unindustrialized and instead developed it to export rice. This meant that it was barely bombed, there weren't any good targets. This also meant that, while the US anti shipping campaign caused Japan to starve... Taiwan just ended with more food than they knew what to do with. The Japanese didn't start drafting Taiwanese people until the summer of 1944 (That's when Lee Deng Hui was there) but, by then, Japan wasn't able to really make use of them as it was hard to ship them to other places. (The last Japanese soldier to surrender in the 1970's was not Hiro Onoda, it was Teruo Nakamura, a Taiwanese aborigine, but he wasn't an officer and doesn't have the cool story of needing to get his commanding officer.) Anyway, many in Taiwan served but very few ever saw combat. When the war ended, the Taiwanese were initially pretty happy with being returned to China, but problems appeared quickly. For many of the Taiwanese, the Chinese soldiers coming over were uneducated, poor, rapacious peasants. For many of the Chinese soldiers, the Taiwanese were coddled collaborators who had no appreciation of how brutal the Japanese war had been. Making things worse was that the hyperinflation on the mainland moved to Taiwan and the economy collapsed. The Chinese government had taken over a lot of Japanese industries and they became government monopolies. Tobacco was one such monopoly and on February 27th, 1947, a Taiwanese woman was beaten by police for selling cigarettes illegally. This sparked a mass protest on the 28th and the police responded with force. The constitution was suspended and Taiwan was under martial law until 1987. Taiwanese people also decided to coordinate their protests against the occupying Chinese authorities by speaking a language that the mainlanders didn't understand. Japanese. The Chinese soldiers, survivors of 8 years of brutal war against Japan, shot the protesters in the face. This is what's called the White Terror and dominated the 1950's. The tension between the ruling mainlanders and the more numerous local Taiwanese people would define the politics for the next 50 years.

TimeGhostHistory
>>53854075

Hey BAS, we've added this to our questions list. No promises it'll make it into a live episode, but when the writers are choosing questions they'll take a look at yours.

Anonymous

The fact that the Japanese aren’t forced to learn about their war crimes the way Germans are is absolutely abhorrent. They should not be allowed to pretend it never happened.

J. Travis Kingston

Wow, can't believe they missed the fact that clone purple machine was at the enemy base. It leads me to believe that the Japanese forces did little, if any Intel gathering when capturing enemy territory.

Anonymous
>>53939711

That's why East Asia is constantly squabbling over this. They eventually managed to trivialized this. "Oh the Koreans and Chinese are acting up again. I don't know what's so bad about the Yasukuni shrine?"

Anonymous

Hi Team, great work, as always. I was just wondering if it was possible to access "war against humanity" part of the channel through other platforms as well, since youtube seems to have more and more trouble with the content and is becoming ever more demanding with personal data. Speaking on "war against humanity" - will you be also covering Italian run concentration camps such as the one in Gonars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonars_concentration_camp) and on Rab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_concentration_camp)?

Anonymous
>>53822108

I remember watching a documentary many years ago where an Australian POW recounted watching a Japanese sergeant kicking a Japanese private to death for speaking rudely to a woman (wasn’t clear if the woman was a POW). So this concurs with @Aaron Colby’s assessment - the brutality of corporal punishment was endemic throughout the IJA.

Anonymous
>>53822108

I Kinda theories of brutalization to explain history, I found them quite pervasive to explain the cruelty of WWII generation of leaders. Nevertheless, I know there are some limits there ... the brutality of coroporal punishment is certainly a thing but Nanjing massacre, the biological experimentation of POW and constant execution of prisonniers and civilians appear to me to go beyond that ... maybe some interesting that could be discussed by next videos @indie&team :

Anonymous
>>53822108

- what is your take on theories of brutalization to explain the emergence of ultra violence during WWII, such as the one promoted by fascists leader like Mussolini or Hitler

Anonymous
>>53822108

- how to explain higher rates war crimes committed by the Japanese army towards enemy soldrrs POW and civilians.

TimeGhostHistory
>>54084298

Hi Igor, thanks for the encouragement and support. We're aware that YouTube is making it increasingly difficult for people to view the War Against Humanity series and are looking into alternative places we can post it. Sorry for the inconvenience. You'll also be "glad" to know that we have indeed included the Italian concentration camps at Gonar in the WAH Feburary part 2 episode, which should be out soon. Thanks again and hope to see you around!