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Kampong Makassar

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Kampong Makassar was one several internment camps in the island of Java near Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in which the Japanese interned enemy civilians, mostly Dutch, after the Dutch East Indies fell to Japanese forces in 1942. Between January and October 1945, Kampong Makassar functioned as prisoners of war, civilian, and relief camps respectively.

References

  1. "BBC - WW2 People's War - Kampong Makassar". Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  2. "Bathing Room in the Women's Quarter of the Makassarese Village Near Master Cornelis in Batavia - World Digital Library". Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  3. "Zoeken in Indische kamparchieven - Indischekamparchieven". Retrieved 1 June 2013.

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