The fall of Singapore

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In 1942, during the Second World War, the British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces. Its capture marked the start of Japan's three-and-a-half year occupation of the island state, during which many ethnic Chinese living in Singapore were rounded up and killed. Louise Hidalgo has been listening to the memories of some of those who lived through that time.

Picture: British soldiers surrender to Japanese forces in Singapore in 1942. (Credit: Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Image)

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1:05.8	Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast here on the BBC World Service.
1:10.2	History as told by the people who were there.
1:13.0	I'm Louis Adalgo and today I'm taking you back to the Second World War and the fall of Singapore in
1:18.4	1942.
1:20.2	Its capture marked the start of Japan's three and a half year occupation of the island state,
1:25.1	which was then a British colony. What follows are the memories of some of those who lived through that time.
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