Suffering of prisoners of the Japanese is unimaginable. My father was POW of the Luftwaffe in Stalag Luft III for three years, a camp of some 11,000 Allied airmen, scene of The Great Escape. Six POWs died of natural causes there during the war. An adjoining camp for Russians, not protected by Geneva Convention, carted off hundreds each month, starved, without medical care and worked to death. My wife, oldest daughter and I visited Zagan, now in Poland, two years ago. It had a single huge sculpture at the entrance of a near-prostrate dying Russian with an arm up in appeal to humanity.
