Asian Forced Laborers - Nadukal

14.0 other sources of information on the TBR

Some readers of this website might be inclined to try to locate additional information on the Thai-Burma Railway. While this should be encouraged, it needs to come with a warning. A simple internet search will produce thousands of citations. Unfortunately, most are poor at best and some outright wrong. Here we particularly note that most tourist-generated videos posted to YOUTUBE are particularly misinformed.

Of course the vast majority of all the information concentrates on the Allied POWs and very little on the romusha. There are also a reasonable number of non-English language sources whose validity will have to be left to others to evaluate.

Here are a few in English that are reasonably well done.

A Thai perspective:

There are videos available — mainly on YOUTUBE — in languages other than English. The authors of this website invite readers to send links to any such videos that make a contribution to telling the TBR / AFL story.

If you only ever watch one video on this topic, let it be this one:

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