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"Hanoi Hilton" - Hoa Lo Prison

The Hoa Lò Prison was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam to torture and kill political prisoners, later it was used by North Vietnam to detain U.S. POW's during the Vietnam War. During this later period it was sarcastically known to American POWs as the Hanoi Hilton. Today it is a museum to document mostly how cruel and merciless the French tortured the Vietnamese and freedom activists. On the other hand, they want to show how humane they were in the treatment of the American prisoners. Reports from American survivors tell a completely different story, one of brutal torture. Torture did not occur to receive secret military information but to gain public anti-war statements against the US, which could be used for propaganda reasons, mainly to strengthen the American anti-war-movement.
My comment: A valuable museum definitely worth a visit. By the way, the later Senator McCain, who was prisoner there for five and a half years, visited it already several times.

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