Hanoi Hilton - The Worst POW camp of the Vietnam War?
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Script: Dejan Milivojevic
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Sources:
Saenger, Diana, and Bradley Steffens. The Vietnam War. Life as a POW. Lucent Books, 2001.
Ellis, Lee. Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton. FreedomStar Media, 2014.
Harris, Carlyle, and Sara W. Berry. Tap Code: the Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed Everything: A True Story. Zondervan, 2019.
Denton, Jeremiah A., and Ed Brandt. When Hell Was in Session. Reprinted by Traditional Press, 1982.
Like the prison itself, the Hanoi Hilton's prison sectors also had ironic nicknames, such as New Guy Village, Heartbreak Hotel, Little Vegas, and Camp Unity.
Very cool
Love your videos
charlie
3:07The scene of Vietnamese soldiers and people hitting American pilots is almost not true, Vietnamese soldiers also protected American soldiers from the wrath of the people.
Some Vietnamese movies propagate this story and I don't know if it's true or not
Vietnam War Veteran here. I knew a pow 20 years ago in a supermarket. He asked me if I was a veteran because of the cap I proudly wore. We hit it off and eventually became friends. He showed me his still visible wounds, his medical certificate dating from 1973 when he came back from Hanoi prison... What we, "field soldiers", endured is nothing in comparison. He is now dead and I miss him terribly. No one will ever understand this war...
thank you for your service, its a shame that the gov let it slide for the amount of human right abuse in the hotel, they couldve retaliate
Thank you for your service
Thank you for all you have done for us. God bless
Cool.. do you think (by your name) modern world is crap because there are no more hairy bushy muffs? Hahaha just kidding.. not. Anyway i wish you and everyone the very best of life in every aspect! good health and longevity and positivity and prosperity. Love and peace 😇
@@Ansardianti retaliate? You mean like how we were there invading already? You're not very smart are you?
During the Christmas bombings of 1972, the prisoners were overjoyed to hear the bombs falling on Hanoi and seeing the guards and torturers getting scared out of their minds.
Shut up yankee you lost
@@terrorgaming459 you still live in a mud hut
@@terrorgaming459 keep crying rice farmer
look folks you guys dont need another war take it easy
@@eightball7614 you wouldn’t of won without china 🇨🇳
I cant imagine being through all this for years and only to come home to a cold welcome :/ I got nothing but respects for you guys
I can’t imagine living my life in my ancestral village then being bombed with napalm and my children having birth defects from defoliants.
lol US soldier lived like a king
@@eedobee what does that have to do with these prisoners?
lmao
@@quanghuyvu461 Is that what your government tells you? Well, how incredibly convenient that they demolished this prison after the war, thus destroying all evidence
Everett Alvarez Jr. has a book called Chained Eagle. It’s a really good book about his first hand account at the Hanoi Hilton
People said the conditions inside is the worst. But let me you this, it is the same as outside at that time.
1. Hanoi and other majority of North VN cities are infected with vermin and disease as a result of the US bombing campaign.
2. Basically, POWs eating the same food as other north Vietnamese. North VN at that time is very poor and meat is a luxury things. The POWs are even better condition as they had changed in their vegetable diets.
3. Well a light bulb is another luxury thing. Most of North VN still living in the dark at night at that time. They may don't even have electricity to begin with.
4. And the torture, well we have to extract information from POWs somehow, it is not like we ask nice and they will answer. At least, all US POWs still in one piece, not like VC POWs in South VN, who return will physical disabilities.
@@congnghequansuvn474 Most people didn't & still don't know, & don't understand the points you made.
A bowl of rice + vegetable soup is still a normal meal for millions of people, either due to poverty or simply due to preference, & it doesn't cause malnutrition.
Most POW's accounts are also very exaggerated to gain some pity.
Yoo😳
@@jaredalvarez968
so you the guy who wrote the book?
Yuh good book when to the hs named after him salinas ca the 831!!
There are currently two Hilton branded hotels in the city of Hanoi.
Capitalism dancing on communism's dead body.
The country is still socialist tho.
@@SHAHIDKC at least we dont have demographic and immigrants crisis
enjoy ur ride when the U.S tumble into another civil war
@@titanime3830 wait are you vietnamese or something?
@@titanime3830 yeah tbh our civil war shall be fought with Twitter Stan’s and Facebook Boomers
The Hanoi Hilton was the hardest to get out of.
While the Paris Hilton was the easiest to get in.
Seacrest out.
Ooh.
Seacrest in.
Aah.
@@sexygirls1280 stop no one is falling for your scam bot
@@sexygirls1280 bruh
Heh, nice
Have you seen that fly on the wall documentary about that guy who spent a night in her .....
My grandfather spent 1.5 years as a POW in Vietnam when he was just 17, when he came home his girlfriend spat on him in the airport calling him all sorts of obscenities with a bunch of other hippies. He moved to Scotland met my gran and lived a great life afterwards. Miss him everyday🤍
he shouldn't been there anyway, deserved i guess.
@@waleed8530 Oh big hard man trolling from some hovel somewhere and engaging in cereal box politics, pitiful🤣
Modern Hippies have now pink hair, but they are still worthless as ever.
Ur grandpa deserved the spat
@@subashchandran7737 spineless rat, you wouldn’t know hardship if it came and slapped you round the ear
The map “Hanoi” from Original Black ops has lots and lots of torture stuff in the background if you take a close look around the map. This video was very disturbing. I’m glad this conflict is over
I was thinking about this map when watching the video
yo. actually, according to these POW, they feel like they are in a hotel, not a prison. they always have meat, vegetables, beer for meals which is very luxury for the vietnamese that time. During the Operation Linebacker II, the vietnamese guard had covered them to get to the safe bunker, some of them may not passed. so don't believe these game plot. ( a US soldier who had fought in vietnam war said: "these guy never join the war so how the f""k they can made a bulls""t thing like this, it's ridiculous.")
@whip game flawless just follow the documentary bro.
@@villagerguy3435 Are you seriously defending Hanoi Hilton just because it has Hilton in the name?
@@vito7428 no. because it's the true that everyone must know about. u can also check the documentary
I loved the fact that you gave the hotel only a 1 star review
Surprise that they didn't give it a -1.5 star! 😂
@@awilli182 I know, right?
Where’d he do that?
@@gabrielagustinhomas The thumbnail
@@wladfan Ohhh, ha ha, wow, I didn’t even notice. Thanks.
War truly is a terrible thing, and the way POWs were treated was truly dark. All those troops were doing was following their superiors or beliefs. Moment of silence for those soldiers that never made it out.
@@Genrikh_Yagoda exactly
I find it good that these American soldiers bombing villages full of innocent people, went to torture camps like this, a spoonful of justice
@@Genrikh_Yagoda because they fought against communist vermin
@@carterf7025 nva and vietcong terrorists tortured and murdered thousands of innocent people
@@carterf7025 does it justify marines getting castrated?
Its truly terrible how any soldier is treated in these prisons/'camps'. War really does nothing but strip people of their humanity.
Feel like it just exposes it
Yeah like how we went and bombed innocent people in Vietnam right?
To treat people like this? Never had humanity in the first place
@@jayo3074 yes, our warcrime called the vietnam war was an atroscity.
@@jayo3074 Oh piss off edgelord, that has nothing to do with this
One of the greatest men I have ever known was POW at the Hilton. He was there a couple years but luckily he escaped. He won't go into detail but he says he had a run-in with two guards but the conversation got boring so he just left.
Baby killer is a greatest man you ever know?
You should choose more wisely ......
@@pobesnelikrastavac1 this is the most childish comment stop playing idenity politics you probably think all germans were nazis or all russians were communists
@@pobesnelikrastavac1 your a clown bro
Interesting. I haven't heard of any American POW successfully escaped from Hoa Loa Prison
Sounds like he’s lying to you. All the prisoners are documented especially well with this prison. Probably just a POG with no action ever seen. Google his name
I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!
Simpsons
@@jokestermasteroflaughter7754 Yeah
"That elephant ate my entire platoon"
@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou
"Sarge, let's make a break for it while the guards are partying with Jane Fonda!"
@@residentelect "Nope. Too dangerous. Let's all sit down here and reminisce about candy bars!"
John McCain’s article recounting his stay in the Hanoi Hilton is worth a read. This video is cool, but you really don’t get an idea of how horrific it was
As true as that is we also do have to remember that they probably can't go into everything as RUclips doesn't like it when you say too much about certain things. The channel is relatively family-friendly so they probably not going to go into all of it. The other thing is I feel like these videos are good springboard and general introductions to certain concepts of History. Then it's up to us to go out and do a little more research on the topic. If we're spoon-fed everything in one video then you really have no point to look it up elsewhere to look up different viewpoints and whatnot
I swear I read that as John Mcclane
Songbird McCain
@@torntokoroa3357 glad you've brought up that point. Hope to see your content on Rumble and other similar platforms. Great work once again!!!
@@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762I can't tell if you're making fun of me or not.
How are you not going to mention the POW, Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, that used Morse Code by blinking to spell out torture on tv?
He also became a US Senator.
They did a separate video on that ruclips.net/video/aCPNlZ7bvRc/видео.html
They actually did a video on him called "the POW that blinked morse code on live TV" it's one of their previous vids here
That’s because they’ve actually already done entire video on him
I think the torturing of prisoners did start to die down in 1970 because of the raid in the Son Tay prison camp by the Special Forces. Despite that the mission was a failure because there were no American POW’s, they were moved weeks before the raid, the NVA did get worried. It also boosted the morale of the prisoners. Gave them some hope to survive.
Yeah, it started to die down in later years as the North Vietnamese realized that no one was buying the propaganda statements that they made prisoners recite.
That wasn’t true.
It started to died down in 1969 after Ho Chi Minh died and after the United States stopped the bombings.
@@huuphuclecao8712
Wut The Phuc?
@@Oline1756 What’s Yankee?
Worst thing until now is that the Vietnamese government claims that they treated the POWs well and always remind the tourists visiting there they treated them “well.”
Well it is a shithole communist state, wouldn’t expect them to say anything else.
good
@Leo the British-Filipino Cuba and Vietnam are the last nominally communist countries left. Capitalism is leaking into both countries.
@@DAndyLord
Doesn't Cuba still torture and/or murder gay people
@@iriamuguillermo9678 I mean hey. Economics and social values are 2 different things after all
Remember, it isn’t a war crime if you’re on the winning side
This
No matter what side you're on, the winning side likes to keep bragging about their "humanity".
we all know about it , so what? it's nothing compare with million of us died during that time.
Forgive but never forget.
@@iosifvissarionovichstalin3895 why do you care Mr. "Death of one is a tragedy, the death of thousands a statistic"?
The people who bombed Dresden missed the memo then.
@@jonym.310 now you’re being childish
I visited the Hanoi Hilton a few years back and the layout today is as follows:
It's a one way system, first you go into the main building this has rooms apon rooms showing the cruelty and suffering endured by the Vietnamese at the hands of the French during the colonial period,
After this it leads into the court yard where massive memorial stands " to the martyrs of the revolution"
then you find yourself lead too two small box rooms this shows you the period of the Vietnam War and the US POW's according to Vietnam " here's a picture of US POW's eating Christmas Dinner" or another one showed them playing basketball in the courtyard according to these rooms they had a whale of a time !
and that's it could spend a good 2-4 hours reading everything and taking your time around the colonial exhibit but the US POW exhibit 20 minutes tops they do have MCain's flight suit on display though which is intresting.
Jesus.
So they just going to super gloss the fact american G.Is where brutally tortured and mentally tortured as well. Mmm okay vietnam point your finger at the US but don't say squat about your dirty secrets
@@stormking3755 lol, did you forget who invaded who?
@@thanhthanhtungnguyen8536 Would it kill you to excercise a bit of intellectual honesty? You have no coherent definition of the term "invader." The NVA crossed an internationally recognized border into South Vietnam without their permission. That's the text-book definition of invasion. Yet somehow they aren't invaders and the Americans are? Were the UN forces who defended South Korea during the Korean War "invaders" too then?
@@Dennis-nc3vw ahem,if saying this in american ways,they arent NVA,they are NFL.There is three Vietnam gov party in that hard time you know.And if i have to tell,America littely ask the world allies to invade north vietnam
Finally, after the incredible stupid one we finally learned about the Hanoi Hilton
????
@@SentientBurrito One of Simple History's videos is about a POW there that was named "The Incredibly Stupid One" by the guards.
vietnamese??
@@toianbuoitoi9519 what???
@@hankhoses8668 shut up yankees , your soldiers went to that prison and ate more than our guards and went home with not any wound and you say this ?
"War is like a corporation, the CEO's / generals go around to the bases which get hurriedly swept before they arrive... just like a McDonalds franchise checkup, the grunts are the table cleaners, the middle management run the bases and order around the table cleaners." -Dhalsim from Street Fighter
When did Dhalsim say that? I know it's not from any of the games, comics, or animes.
ruclips.net/video/ZYAPgPH9hsI/видео.html
Dhalsim was a simpleton.
@@sid2112 He was right about this though...
@@mariosmatzoros3553 No, he really wasn't. He missed the point of capitalism completely.
Question: is this how the French treated the locals?
YES, and even worse. One of worst jobs for Vietnamese during the time as colony for French was Rubber extractor. If you are a fan of Warhammer 40K, the condition of this jobs looks like denizens lived on Hive Cities
Yeah, pretty much. Those leg shackles were even used by the French.
Yes
One of the famous one is to drill a hole in prisoner's feets and then put shackles in it
Oof
Those dirty Imperialists ? For sure
the only motel that beats you when you don't give it 5 stars
An army that manages to treat its prisoners well is a real army of brave men....
Finland treated their POWs pretty well during WW2
Soviets in ww2: Lol
German's in WW2 😋
Doesn't work that way in asymmetrical warfare. When you're on the side that's less advanced and/or much smaller in size you have to resort to extreme methods to push back. Horrific demoralization tactics are common in this situation. Captured airmen tend to be treated alot worse aswell, because of the stigma against them for being able to fly in and obliterate a huge amount of the less advanced factions own people/infrastructure without much effort and from a relatively safe distance in an extremely short amount of time. So when they manage to capture one they have alot of pent up anger and rage against them that they want to unleash
Vietnam through 4000 years, fought Chinese countless times and butchered the Mongolian: Dafaq?
1/5
Would give this hotel a zero but it's not possible on this site. Rooms were dirty and the furniture was dilapidated and uncomfortable. Staff were excessively rude and did not have any care for guests.
Food was meh
about the food ... i have to say that travelling to a extremly poor country in that time was not a good idea even the people live there ate jícama with salt and soldiers were starving
Thank you, come again
I really enjoy watching your content and seeing how your channel's success. It keeps me motivated to keep working on my own. Keep the great videos coming!
Ironically there is now an actual Hilton in Hanoi.
dying isn't even the worst thing that could happen in a war but to be captured & be tortured
You dont survive for 8 years in pow camp without a will to survive
Well these are one of the reasons on why The Japanese from the Sengoku era up to WW2 practiced a Brutal Suicide Method which is Hara Kiri,since Shoving A Blade on your Stomach is much more better for them than Being captured Alive by the enemy,since the shame of being a POW is already considered a Torture for them
Receptionist:'' Welcome to Hanoi Hilton. Are you a Hilton Rewards member?"
t's a shame that there are still many people in Vietnam who still say things like North Vietnamese soldiers never treated American soldiers badly, etc. . .
In general, it is still necessary to look at history from many perspectives (both Vietnamese and American soldiers) rather than making an immediate statement.
(Even though I'm Vietnamese, I have to admit that the Vietnam war is still full of dark truths that many people are still trying to hide.)
(srry my English sucks :I )
Thank you.
thank you it was a horrible war the dehuamnized everyone vietnam america and the rest of the world should no longer fight in battlefields
I appreciate an honest statement, people always tend to only judge one side in this conflict, in my experience usually the US and leave the Vietnamese alone
I do not condone what the US did, but it’s not fair to judge them alone when the other side did so many things as well
What’s worse is when neither wants to own up to their ill deeds
I'm Vietnamese too but I've never believed in the "North Vietnamese is merciful towards their enemies" propaganda bs that many Vietnamese people thought was true. In war, people do nasty stuff no matter which sides you are on. History should be looked at from an objective POV without any bias.
@@Lajos_Kelemen vietnamese hate american pilot the same as US troops hate vietcong traps , sniper , mine ...etc . because people often hate certain thing can rekt them easily , can't be seen and can't be fight back effectively , don't give them a fair chance to fight back
The us never charged NV because they knew they had done their share of war crimes but damn this is hard to watch. Imagine getting home after this and be treated like crap
Likely depends though most were warmly welcomed back. I mean would a hippie have the motive to spit on a troop who experience combat and just not bother with that
Can you say the same to the prisoners who were released from prison for murdering innocent people on how they were treated?
Human imagination for cruelty truly knows no bounds.
Frank Woods:"Welcome to the Hanoi Hilton."
Did anyone notice that in the background the Vietnam prisoner of war that pretended to be dumb was sweeping the floor 8:39
The saddest thing is that US do the same with Pow. Sadly no Saints here.
Guest: "Hi, do you have free breakfast?"
Hanoi Hilton receptionist: "Yes. Flied lice and all the roaches and rats you can eat"
I think you mean loaches and lats but ok....
“Flied lice” sounds even worse
In the fallout world, that's a four star meal
Vietnam treated US pilots even better than their locals. This video has a lot of misleading information. In constrast, this must have been the way the US and SouthVietnam treated VietCong's soldiers and spies.
😮
The only thing these POW videos have taught me is that if it ever comes to it, fight to the death. NEVER be taken POW
Only people who checked the video early remembers when the title is
" Hanoi Hilton - the worst " hotel " in the Vietnam war ? "
I want to point out that not all vietnamese solders participated in this, and not all liked it. just unfortuantly most did. also, a pow did not describe this level of vermin shown in the video, he said one of every vermin for each cell or something. also, worms were sometimes in the rice intentionally. just thought i would add this. i forget the name of the pow hes dead now though.
Why wouldn't they participate?
USA was bombing and killing their soldiers and civilians . They burned villages ,throwing chemicals from the air ,polluting waters and did everything that is forbidden by any convections and war rules
@@pobesnelikrastavac1 cuz not everybody became insane, I mean, I would expect such things to happen, a lot of people definitely got so offended by the US and did horrible things to Americans soldiers. But to think everybody should have done things like that is kinda absurd, revenge is just not justice
@@pobesnelikrastavac1
there are always moral people
in the same way you probably wouldn’t want to hurt a kid who was drafted into the army, with no real bearings on the international politics you despise, some of them may simply not want to harm others
@@hihi-nm3uy
Don't talk to me about wars ,because i was in two .
As far as i know Vietnamese ppl are at home in Vietnam, Americans didnt have any right to be there.
The Americans had this version they taught to the South Vietnamese which looked like what happened in Hanoi Hilton. The Vietnam War was a very dark war that no one had seen in the 20th century
A definition where there is no good vs evil, just war
@@brandonlu9280 nah, invaders will always be on the negative side of war. So America gotta take that L. We did the evil deed
@@mikerhem1273 Alright. How about the opposite where the invaders were heroes then?
@@brandonlu9280 Think I'm Gonna need a historic example to answer that question But I guess something like evading Germany to end their reign of terror during the holocausts/ww2 era would have been a good point. So maybe its not an evil thing to invade a country whos causing internal destruction to its occupants
@@mikerhem1273 Well any other examples?
Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwa᷉ː lɔ̂]) was a prison used by the French colonists in French Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War (which in Vietnam is called the American War). During this later period it was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton". The prison was demolished during the 1990s, although the gatehouse remains as a museum.
underrated comment
@@andrewlee9839 I mean, it’s just from Wikipedia.
Funny how they always conveniently leave out it was actually a French war started by the friend colonialists and USA only showed up with other NATO forces decades later.
"The food is trash the camp is disgusting,Theres rats everywhere, 1 star" -U.S. POW on yelp
I would love to see a video on an American soldier in the Vietnam war named William pitsenbarger he was Air Force Pararescueman that scarficed his life to try and save an entire platoon that he never even knew
"Welcome to the Hanoi Hilton" - Woods, Black Ops 2
Currently, Hoa Lo prison has become a tourist destination in the center of the city. their marketing team is quite interesting (especially when compared to other state tourist attractions), they do a lot of memes about history
(sorry American friends. My comment may be misleading. what happens to American soldiers is rarely mentioned here. it talks mainly about the period of independence war against France. and memes mainly about what happened in the anti-French era and before. America, American soldiers are rarely mentioned (If have any it will be positive, much more human right 😃). although I think it's pretty important.
Place should be firebombed till glass remains
They do memes?
Memes? Nothing about this is funny
You owe us a lot after so much pain and suffering 😑
my apologies if commenters attack you for what happened in the past
the nva should have blasted "fortunate son" 24/7 to remind the captive they are not fortunate enough to escape drafting and captured
What are you talking about us?
@@huuphuclecao8712 do u know the song fortunate son is somewhat anti war for the GI?
the song describe the period where the young American forced to draft into Vietnam war against their will; they are not rich and political tie to strong backers enough to escape. so they are not fortunate enough to be in draft age and have to suck it up and fight the war.
and what im trying to say, NVA should play that song rather than propoganda messages, to remind the captured POW they are unfortunate to fight pointless war and unfortunate enough to get caught
Let's not forget the prisoner who blinked TORTURE in the video.
Back again with my request lol I'd love to see a video about the British soldier eric harden, during the liberation of the netherlands in 1945 there was a slaughter at a field, it was mid winter and reinforcements were ways out. There were alot of injured people in the battlefield freezing and beelding to death, eric left base camp and ran out mutliple times saving people. Every time he ran out he got shot at and hit mutliple times. After being ordered not to go back out. He went another time but this time he got shot in the head by a sniper. For his heroic deeds he was given the victoria cross
Imagine, a country 15 thousand miles away from you, attack at your country, just because you have another political system. What would you do to the prisoners you might catch, knowing that the have burned a lot of villages, they have killed women and children and things like that???...Just imagine...
Well, according to the Hoa Lo Prison documents, objects of prisoners displayed, pictures and such, the U.S soldiers when captured at that time have been treated well. They were even offered to play sport freely in the prison ground (e.g: basketball, football, even chess), drank milk, even had a decent cigarette pack for themselves. That's how the Vietnamese people at that time treated the POWs from the U.S.
just common L for US. Liberating means bombing 7 mil tons of bombs to a village. Just common US hypocrisy
@@TheMIBWORKSHOP oh there were alot undocumented stuff aswell i imagine
On Billings Gazette they interviewed one of the prisoner's who was there that interview and the gentleman telling his events leaves a mark on you
Yes, but these men never had a "real" life afterwards. Drugs, alcoholism and suicide were the norm
Vietnam was a double edged sword for war, it has cool equipment, the start for new technology and jungle warfare (double sided) while had the worst experience for both sides and was probably one of the most gruesome wars and longest
Sounds like my experience in Al Kanater prison in Egypt. McCain helped support my release. I did 5.5 years during the Revolution until 2017. They were trying to keep me 7 years. It was my master work to get out early as everyone in the prison (both prisoners and police) told me every day I would not get out in less than 7. I was the only one who had Faith and every day I told all of them I was getting out by the Grace of God. I had Vitamin C deficiency also, food was the same, same filthy environment with open barred windows, except the cells were grossly overcrowded with 30 people in 4 man cells. A lot of people died from unknown diseases. God Bless John McCain. I received an executive pardon by way of various political maneuvers, which Egyptian prison police refused to honor. Too much to say about the events here. Seek God and Live
Why this has no comments.
I salute you.
@@Tubulce most don't have comparable experiences to comment from, I would assume. There are plenty of reports on the internet about Egyptian prison conditions and illegal prisoners
yea Egyptian here and let me tell u , Egypt has one of the most disgusting records in human rights , a notorious prison there called Scorpion Prison is literally a death sentence to anyone going there, im interested to what got you arrested there in the first place , did u participate in the revolution or something else
@@magedadel4812 yes Egypt prison is a virtual death sentence for anyone in it. Even in small prison populations there, 1-2 people die every month. High death rate. I was charged with murder and the lower court judges found I was not guilty, which was supposed to be an easy ride to upper court dismissal, but the police stopped allowing me to go to court. Their so called "trials" can easily take 2 or more years, all the while you are rotting in the prison. Too many people die during the trial phase
@@magedadel4812 for example, the truck would arrive to transport me and other prisoners to our appointed court, but the police wouldn't allow me out of my cell. I got up one morning went to the bathroom and saw a Sundanese had hung himself in the bathroom. He used one of those homemade ropes made from woven polyurethane bags. His neck was broken and he defecated on himself. Some Eritreans were always trying to drink toilet bowl cleaner to end it
Me, a knitter who is looking at the grandma knit: *I am impressed*
Guys, war is over from now and I know, it's painful, both sides committed many war crimes and no one really won the war. Both sides had suffered a lot and as a Vietnamese, the stories are different from others' views. So please don't start another war on the internet, forget the painful memories of the Vietnam war and look forward to now, the two sides have become good allies.
Agreed
What do you mean forget? Forget the atrocities? It's like saying we should forget the German and Japanese atrocities during WW2 because America is their ally now.
@@itshistorysenpai2895 forgive but still remember, and never do it again. That what he mean
As a person from Russia, I’ll never forget how you treated Americans…but yes we have to move on.
agreed but it was emotional even for both sides so they are going to be insulting and roasting reach other in the comment section nothing we can do
What a hellish place, I don’t know what I would have done going through this.
Rule 1 : Don't Get Caught 💀
My partners Dad survived the death march of prisoners during WW2 at the hands of the Japanese. These British prisoners during WW2, like American and others nations prisoners during the Vietnam war, suffered immensely.
All this suffering should NEVER be forgotten, despite the best efforts of many these days to rewrite history and erase what these heros went through.
Great vid
History will never fail to intrigue me.
This is propaganda
Tbh, those pilotes that fire bombed villages full of innocent people, dont deserve anything better.
Cope
If you actually research the Vietnam war you will find the US soldiers were fire bombing the jungle to clear unbeknownst to the villages below. North Vietname was also bombing South Vietnam and doing the same exact thing yet the South Vietnamese and the US treated the POWs well. Also the captured soldiers this story mentioned weren't fire bombing. F4s cant fire bomb.
Btw, you should make another video on Côn Đảo Prison, which is the French and American prison system for Vietnamese Army and politicians. Hanoi Hilton is a cakewalk compared to how the prisoners are treated over in Côn Đảo "Resort"
I think they should do that, I’m feeling like the channel is bias for US and not release incidents or hells like Con Dao or The Napalm Girl.
Yes
I’m not sure if the Hanoi Hilton was a cakewalk compared to that, but I agree that they should do a video about that prison.
@@superspies32 i dont think its bias considering they had shown american atrocities
Don't forget that this channel made a video about us war crime againts the italians in ww2
I can personally vouch for Hang Tough, was an exceptional book!
Jeez the animation is incredible.
As a VC, it's so simple to compare with atrocity commited by the U.S and their allies in Vietnam both North and South. This is a war prison, not a kindergarten my friends.
Then You must know you acted and fought like the french you fought so hard to liberate yourselves from you used the same shackles and chains and methods to tourture and make people suffer.
@@DemicleasBecause They did the same with us first,so we made them pay. That's fair.
@@Demicleas The Us army and their puppet government did a lot of war crimes in our country,We did it just for vengeance.
@@Demicleas you need to search what they have done to VC in Con Dao's island.
Just search:" ConDao Prison Island" then you will see. Maybe in the internet just have some good view and reminder that there will be an good place to visit. But if you hear about the crime that they do to those soilder....it is not a good thing to watch....
Bruh why the US is involved in every matter of other countries? It’s their own damn countries, not yours💀
this guy teaches me more than my highschool did.
war turns humans into monsters, please don't judge vietnamese.
War crimes that they committed? First we got the French, then we got the Americans coming to this beautiful country with the nicest people to commit years and years of war crimes, humanity crimes etc, who would charge them for saying to this world “enough is enough”
Nice to see credit in the description
should we have a video about My Lai massacre!?
they wont do it, because they will be ashamed, simple
@@metal_fusion yup
I will never see hotels the same again.
Damn, those leg shackles would have been gnarly to sleep in. Also, why was that guy in so much pain when he was pissing??
I think he was actually trying to do number two.
@@capncake8837 Oh right, I watched it again and saw the group bit I missed the first time. I just heard the noise with the guy and thought he had a gnarly UTI or something, giving the unnamed characters some backstory.
I Really like your animation 😊😊😊
*Content in the video is not reality, you cheat me, you cheat everyone*
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@@nguyenthongluongvo1556 Thank you so much 🥰
Càng ngày càng mất thiện cảm với người Mỹ, nếu không muốn nói là bọn Mỹ.
The USA should have spoken to Ho Chi Minh and ended the war sooner. Such a waste of so many lives.
yup. HCM actually came to the US first for help but they turned him down in order to give VN back to the French
It's a little more complicated then that guys
@@michaelchristopher2003 He try to have good term with USA
That's the greatest mistake of Truman. Ho Chi Minh used to write a letter to ask US for confirmation of Vietnam. But since France threaten to join USSR if US did, he rejected (I'm guess France will not have a ball to do that when US troops still a lot in Europe, and if they do, they only force USSR to carry them and collapsed faster).
@@michaelchristopher2003 not really, vietnam was an ally during WW2 saving many americans shot down while fighting the occupying japanese and Ho Chi Minh talked a lot with american military commanders and politicians seeking independence for his country after the war and was promised to get it like so many other colonies, but when the war finally ended France demanded to be allowed to keep Vietnam and America agreed to appease it's ally, and the French just went right back to controlling and exploiting Vietnam and it's people.
Name? "Meoff". First name? "Jack". Jack Meoff? "Ha ha ha". Whack whack wack. Richard Pryor.
We are right to defend own Country . Just like Vietnamese say " The country of Vietnam is one, the people of Vietnam are one. Rivers can dry up, mountains can be eroded, but this truth never changes."
I'd love to see how the French troops from that time reacted to this video
Lying about history is not good, this vid will make many people who don't know believe in it
didn't expect that people could rate the prison they're in
I visited the ‘Hanoi Hilton’ (Maison Centrale) It was a very moving experience
Where can I get those screaming sounds at 7:45?
*I give it a 5 star review because I* *own it*
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Lol
In my opinion no one right during Vietnam war. I saw lots of comments and replies in this video and it a whole drama like Twitter communities. Us make unwanted war and Vietcong not treat enemy soldiers well. That's all, if you want to know why i say that, i'll answer nicely
I like how all 6 prisoners were going to the bathroom simultaneously
I visited it and saw Mccains cell, surreal to see it after growing up in that era.
It’s called karma for the US
Hey bro, I always liked your videos and I have request is..
Please make videos of WAFFEN SS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT 😁😁😁⚔️⚔️⚡⚡⚡
We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request
- NVA prison guard
Lol
What's his name, kid?
@@nguyenviet5087 I was joking
as a vietnamese, the word hoa lo, means, hot like a pan with hot oil on a stove
Hey can you make Con Dao Prison in south vietnamese too?
I am interesting
I've heard stories from my grandpa who served in Vietnam where they would put 4 Vietcong soldiers that wouldn't talk in interrogation onto a helicopter and tie a rope to one of the 4 to the helicopter and kick them out and who ever was tied survived and had to watch his fall to their demise. remember there are 2 sides to a coin and this was an active war.
My grandpa was a marine, I never actually knew till now. I’M NOW ACTUALLY FREAKED OUT
@@brittanym526 wait till you see what Americans did in Con Dao prison island
Explained like a man who has never had to experience war. I imagine if you just witnessed the atrocities committed by the Vietcong you'd be doing something similar. You have some villagers point out 4 Vietcong who just murdered school children and you capture them after they killed a fellow soldier in your squad; what do you think you'd do with them? Especially if they have info that could prevent future attacks of that sort. Now go meditate on that while drinking your soy latte in the comfort of your freedom.
@@jeffreyraia5804 VC and NVA Will never do that,they couldn’t kill their own people.
9:04 as someone who has suffered my shoulders being popped out, I felt uneasy hearing that 😬
This is terrific. I don't want to start a blame game so I admit that we could sometimes be really sadistic and cruel. war was never a good idea to begin with.
I was tortured here, I’m gonna give it 1 1/2 stars for the exotic food.
Were the cockroaches not normal enough for you?
@@zebraro2852 I never had roaches fresh, they’d always be burnt in the outlets. Hanoi really gave you the real cockroach experience.
Great to see another video
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