To get a good understanding of what occurred in World War 2 with the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway or Death Railway, I suggest visiting certain locations in Kanchantaburi. The Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum will give you a lot of the history of the difficulties that the prisoners of war and the Asian workers endured to build the railway under the brutal command of the Japanese Military. The Death Railway section of the Tham Krasae Railway Station will show you the amount of rosk that needed to be removed and the bridges that needed to be built, mostly by hand. The Kwai River Bridge that was made famous by the 1957 film “Bridge over the River Kwai”. And the somber Kanchantaburi War Cemetery, the final resting place for many of the prisoners of war who died during the railway construction.
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