Hanoi: Hỏa Lò Prison

Hỏa Lò Prison, sarcastically called the “Hanoi Hilton” by American POWs who were incarcerated and tortured there during the Vietnam War…

has a history of injustice and barbarism that goes much farther back in time.

I will allow the photographs to speak for themselves and leave you to sort out fact from fiction and objective from subjective truth…

*** Warning: Extremely Disturbing Images Below ***


Maison Centrale Main Entrance with Tet freeting
Aerial View of Hoa Lo Prison (Maison Centrale)

Celebration of Party Loyalty


Original Prison Door


History of French Colonialism

Thumbnail History
Maison Central (MC) Prison Uniform

Guillotine

Ho Chi Minh’s New Years Message 1969

American POWs


B52 Bomber Messages


Robert McNamara

International Support for Ho Chi Minh?


Anti-War Sentiments


John McCain Artifacts