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Surviving the "Death Railway"

A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2, plus Hitler's girl guides, how Benidorm became a tourist hotspot, Italian migrant tragedy in post-war Belgium, and the Lake Nyos disaster.

Photo: Allied Prisoners of War in a Japanese prison camp 1945 (British Pathé)

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51 minutes

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Sun 2 Sep 201823:06GMT
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