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Pages in category "Australian military personnel killed in World War II" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center; The Ravensbrück trials of the camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. War-responsibility trials in Finland – a series of trials of the Finnish leadership, originally established for war crimes but held without war crime indictments
Over 27,000 Australians were killed and 23,000 wounded in action during World War II. In addition, hundreds more servicemen and women were killed and injured in accidents during the war. An Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942.
Hiromi Nakayama (died 1946), army soldier hanged for war crimes; Takuma Nishimura (1889–1951), military officer who was found guilty of perpetrating the Parit Sulong Massacre, executed by hanging in 1951. Tsuyoshi Noda (1912–1948), soldier, sentenced to death for participating in the hundred man killing contest.
The approximately 150 Australian and Indian soldiers, now prisoners of war, were immediately subjected to beatings and the killing of those unable to move. The remaining soldiers were herded into a nearby building where they were stripped naked and kept in overcrowded rooms and denied medical attention and water.
During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers. At the end of World War II , many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg trials and Tokyo Trials .
This section includes war crimes which were committed from 7 December 1941 when the United States was attacked by Imperial Japan and entered World War II. For war crimes which were committed before this date, specifically for war crimes which were committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War, please see the section above which is titled 1937 ...
HMAS Shropshire arriving in Sydney in November 1945 carrying long serving soldiers. World War II cost thousands of Australian lives and consumed a large portion of the national income. During the war, 27,073 members of the Australian military were either killed, died of wounds or died while prisoners of war.