“The Fall of Singapore has been framed as Britain’s worst military disaster – but what did occupation really mean for people in Singapore?”
From the important wealth of oral history interviews conducted about the occupation
“I found that the Japanese Occupation state was actually less present the further down you were on the socioeconomic ladder.… I did start to get a sense that the Japanese were far more interested in co-opting and controlling the elites of Singapore, and that marginalized peoples (whether by race or socioeconomic status or gender) had a peculiar sort of anonymity in the occupied city. Some might not consider these people to be ‘significant,’ but their experiences provide an important corrective to standard narratives of the war.”
https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-13/issue-1/apr-jun-2017/voices-that-remain/
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