ABSTRACT
The move to Changi gaol would prove to be the last major reorganisation of the Changi POW camp. While at the gaol, the POWs would learn of the German surrender and the end of the European war, as well as the Japanese capitulation, some months later. This event meant the end of their war and of captivity. The realisation that they were finally free obliged all the POWs to come to terms with the reality of a freedom that had been out of reach for so long.
