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Deutsch: Die ehemalige Trasse der "Todes-Eisenbahn" am Hellfire-Pass. Diese Eisenbahnlinie wurde 1942 und 1943 in kürzester Zeit durch unwegsames Gelände gebaut, weil das (damals mit Thailand verbündete) Japan eine Verbindung auf dem Landweg von Bangkok nach Burma brauchte. Der Bau, der technisch lange für unmöglich gehalten worden war, wurde unter unsagbar grausamen Lebens-und Arbeitsbedingungen von asiatischen Zwangsarbeitern sowie englischen, holländischen, australischen und amerikanischen Kriegsgefangenen ausgeführt. Dieser Pass ist praktisch mit Hammer und Meißel in den Fels getrieben worden in Tag- und Nachtschichten von unterernährten, kranken Männern, von denen ein großer Teil die Kriegsgefangenschaft nicht überlebt hat. Der Name "Hellfire-Pass" kommt daher, dass auch nachts im Schein von Lampen und Feuern gearbeitet wurde und die stark abgemagerten Männer im Feuerschein an Hölleninsassen erinnerten.
English: Rail bed of the former Burma-Siam-Railway (the famous Death Railway) at the Hellfire-Pass. The Japanese Army needed the railway to connect Bangkok and Burma. The railway track was built 1942 and 1943 by British, Dutch, Australian and American Prisoners of War and by Asian Forced Laborers under terrible conditions of life - many of them died. This cutting in the rock was excavated with nothing else but hammers and chisels. Work continued at night, lit by fires and lamps; that’s where the name “Hellfire” comes from.
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Camera location14° 12′ 43.56″ N, 98° 34′ 40.8″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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