The Brutality of Hanoi Hilton in the Vietnam War 

"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Vietnam War is one of the most terrifying wars, even trees speaking Vietnamese were terrified

Can you make a video on how the US military treated Vietnamese prisoners during the Vietnam War?

Simple history, simply terrifying

I see you guys talked a lot about the Hanoi Hilton but never mentioned about the brutal war crimes in the Côn Đảo and Phú Quốc prisons cause you guys chickened out and never have the balls to actually say it out loud

As a Vietnamese person i still have living relatives that were subjected to these tortures, my grand uncle was taken as a prisoner of war and was taken to a concentration/labor camp nearing the end of the war and was subsequently subjected to torture. He was tortured so badly that he was essentially castrated by his wounds, he was starved and beaten only to be put into hard labor, his wife and family believed him to be dead until he one day returned home after more than a decade only to find out his wife had remarried to a northener, like salt in the wound as everyone genuinely thought he had died, He is such a kind and forgiving man, his children even the ones that weren't his still love him and visit him regulary and likewise he loves them all dearly despite everything that has happened to him.

I visited the Hanoi Hilton five years ago. It’s a museum now, or what’s left of it. Most of it was torn down after the war. First built by the French and the late 1800s, and they had lots of ingenious little ways of slowly torturing prisoners. The portion of the exhibit dealing with what they call “the American war“ is relatively small, including a propaganda video, showing American POWs playing volleyball and so on. The ones who “went along to get along,“ so to speak. About what you would expect. But again, it wasn’t something they really harped on. Most of the exhibit was devoted to the French treatment of Vietnamese political prisoners.

Wow doug needs a movie about his time

It’s crazy to see how creative humans can be to inflicting great suffering to one another

I really can't even imagine somehow enduring 8 years and 7 seven months of this. It's absolutely remarkable anyone endured their stays in the Hilton, especially for that freaking long. I imagine even after release however, life was never truly the same. I'm sure part of every man imprisoned there never truly left.

If not for woods, I never would’ve known what the Hanoi Hilton was.

Những thông tin trên đây là giả dối, chủ kênh video này cố gắng làm sai lệch lịch sử vì thiếu hiểu biết biết về những phi công mỹ , sự thật họ được quân đối bắc Việt Nam đối xử nhân đạo, thậm chí họ có chế độ ăn uống có sữa và thịt trong bữa ăn , điều xa xỉ nhất bấy giờ, cũng không có chuyện tra tấn phi công mỹ như nội dung video này, bác tôi đã tham gia trận chiến kể lại, ông ấy chứng kiến việc đối xử nhân đạo với phi công Mỹ bị bắt ở miền bắc,. Người làm video này nên thực tế đi tìm hiểu thông qua các cựu phi công mỹ đã bị bắt để hiểu rỏ sự việc. Nhân đây tao hủy đăng ký kênh của mày. Làm video nên có kiến thức lịch sử và thực tế!

Người Mỹ còn đối sử với tù binh tệ hơn chúng tôi nhiều :)))

As a Vietnamese, I felt sorry for the POW at mai son concentration camp. It was brutal. The real reason behind our outrage was poverty and the mass bombardment . Back in the day, soldiers of the NVA suffered a lot because they lost their family and houses during the war. Besides that, thousands of Vietnamese were still infected by the orange agent.

Where are the movies about these guys. Seriously, some of these stories would make amazing films

All this could've been avoided if the US would've helped Ho Chi Minh set up a democratic government in Vietnam like he wanted to have it.

They just dropped napalm and what not over villages, what did they expect?

Moral of the story : don't invade other's country

Kênh này đưa thông tin sai sự thật lịch sử, Việt Nam không tra tấn tù bình chiến tranh của mĩ dù số tù binh này gây tội ác cho nhân dân Việt Nam.

What about the 300+ POWs who never came home because the US failed to pay reparations to the North Vietnamese 😡 .

Comparing to what VC POWs had to suffered in Con Dao or Phu Quoc, this was just a sweet dream.

🇻🇳NVA beat the USA in war 😂 poor farmers vs educated american military

fake new 🇺🇸😂

Simple History is very biased about what history he shows. Never showed the other side. Where are crimes that Americans did. If you are gonna make a history channel, be neutral.

Can you do more videos about Bataan and the Hellships? My grandpa survived both in WW2 but died from smoking before I was born.

Let us not forget the american officer who skinned a village chief alive, and got away with it.

Maybe don't do the same thing with the Vietnamese local and then we might kindly not to show such brutality to those we see as "invader"

“I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam!” JRR Tolkien

One prisoner at the infamous Hanoi 'Hilton,' he said that he during the Christmas bombings of Operation Linebacker II heard the sound of the B-52 engines during the bombing raids over Hanoi.

It’s important to remember that the Vietnam “war” wasn’t actually a legal war. America hasn’t had a legal war since WWII. The Vietnamese knew this at the time. The Vietnamese saw American pilots dropping bombs on their cities the same way we would see random dudes dropping bombs on our cities: criminal violence, not legitimate actions in a legal war. So, when they would shoot down American pilots with their defenses and caught the pilots, they would treat them the way you’d treat any criminal that takes an airplane and drops bombs on Dallas or NYC. As you could imagine, the people of those cities would be angry at them, and they’d endure the worst the infamous American “justice” system could dish out.

I was not gonna die in a FUCKING SWAMP!!

bạn cóbiết mỗi quả bom thả xuống đã lấy đi bao nhiêu mạng sống của người dân người lính không?

Interesting video, but I recommend you make another video about Phu Quoc Prison which is also as notorious as Ha Noi Hilton a.k.a "Hoa Lo Prison". The life of P.O.W. in Phu Quoc Prison was terrible and they suffered ruthless torture which can cause goosebumps when you imagine it. War is miserable and I don't provoke war by any means, but I believe that the story of war should be analyzed from different perspectives in order to gain insight about the conflict. The brutality of Phu Quoc prison was somewhat as same as Ha Noi Hilton. P/s: In living conditions in Phu Quoc Prison were awful and prisoners were always being abused by US officers and ARVN wardens. I don't know if there was a coincidence but the " Tiger Cage" method was also a warden's favorite torture method too. When I visited Phu Quoc Prison, I saw some traumatized photos, and some prisoners' skulls were killed when they try to escape.

they are bombing vietnamese. what do you expect?

3:58: Doug Hegdahl was both VERY smart and lucky to survive all this the way he did.

It is very difficult not to hate, I mean really hate someone who dropped bombs on your city and colleagues

And tbh, what will you do with guys booming your home? Kiss him?

The fact that this is war is just terrifying

I was lucky, I stayed at a much nicer hotel, I got to see this as a museum, and not for real, I can’t even imagine that level The museum itself focuses mostly on how the French originally used it, as well as the weapons which were awesome to see, the rooms were tiny and were on a slant, they have John McCains suit in proud display 😂 There was some part in the roof that was fenced off but we snuck in, it was just an empty attic but still was fun

I like to watch these videos because these videos remind me that my life, although crappy, can be far worse.

And suddenly, there was a pilot, who happened to be a Senetor in the US gov, and that man played an important role in re-establishing diplomatic affairs between the US and the country that tortured him. That seems unusual for a normal person.

Ngày 25/10/1967, máy bay của phi công John McCain, trong đợt oanh kích thứ 23 ở miền bắc Việt Nam, bị trúng pháo trên bầu trời Hà Nội. Ông buộc phải nhảy dù và rơi xuống hồ Trúc Bạch. Bị gãy hai tay và một bên chân, ông được sơ cứu, sau đó bị giam ở nhà tù Hỏa Lò trong năm năm rưỡi. Gần 20 năm sau, vào năm 1985, ông John McCain, lúc đó là dân biểu Hạ Viện Mỹ, đã trở lại thăm Việt Nam. Cùng với John Kerry, thuộc đảng Dân Chủ, ông đã là người kiến tạo bình thường hóa bang giao Việt-Mỹ. Vì vậy video này không đúng sự thật!

Freedom and the Wars we fight against Communism have have a very high price!... Thank a Veteran next time you see one... They are the reason we are free in this wonderful country!... God Bless America!

Now let us see videos about Con Dao prison, located in Phu Quoc island

Those US pilots were forced to fly the same flight lanes, the North Vietnamese concentrated their Anti-Aircraft guns on those lanes and those pilots were sitting ducks, just so the military industrial complex could make more money off lost aircrafts during Rolling Thunder.

it was hard to blame the North Vietnamese soldiers and citizens, their hatred towards the American pilot was impossible to describe as they lost too many loved ones, including family members, friends, and even close neighbors due to relentless American bombardment. After all, war was the beginning point that started it all. That's why now we, Vietnam, have peace, we try as much as possible to avoid any conflicts

If you have a choice, which one would you prefer to stay in. This or Guantanamo Bay?

Its crazy to me that we even still have wars.......every human on earth knows how brutal they are yet we keep doing it over and over, making the same mistake that gets us into war every time.

The Vietnamese are treating the American soldiers the way invaders deserve to be treated. What is brutal is the way the American invaders killed women and children indiscriminately.

You should make a video about My Lai.

Jane Fonda belongs there

Hail to Ho Chi Minh

Honestly, from what I've read, I'd be more afraid of being a captured Viet Cong guerrilla in Saigon than an American in Hanoi.

This makes sense why we still have Guantanamo. We got tortured in Vietnam, now we torture in Cuba

The incredible stupid one😂😂😂😂 I love this man so much! He is Merica spirit animal

faking history?

My uncle was a helicopter pilot and was shot down over Vietnam. He spent 3 years in captivity. His back looks like he’s into scarification he has so many small uniform scars. One day I went to his house after school and he’d flipped the couch over and was throwing Hummels and screaming in Vietnamese at me when I went in his front door. I don’t think he ever truly got over his experiences in Vietnam. I don’t know if he was in the Hilton or not, he never spoke about any of it except to apologize for the aforementioned incident.

When Americans use bombs to kill innocent people, if they are tortured or treated poorly, that's normal and understandable. Let's ask, if Vietnamese people also brought bombs to attack American people like that, how would they be treated when they were arrested? That's the war...thankfully it ended & today VN-US are good friends.

I love how USA propaganda machine tries to throw dirt on heroic resistance of Socialist Vietnam

Đây là một sự bịa đặt và xúc phạm nghiêm trọng với lịch sử và con người Việt Nam. Thật không thể chấp nhận được

this's all lie. US pilot captured in Hilton never got such torture. Maybe strict investigation, but no torture. They were given good food, good living conditions...While the Hilton guards' salary was ~50 dong/month, the pilot prisoner food money was 1,6 dong/day, that equal ~48 dong/month.

That dude acting like he incredibly slow is awesome. Funny to think of the guys seeing him enjoying the courtyard not even mad or jealous just like man that’s one crazy sob.

Imagine bombing the another country's capital that even include hospital and expect well treating 💁If someone bombed USA's hospital and received treating like 4 - 5 star hotel when they were in prison do you agree with that?

5 star hotel in eastern europe

Bombing military structures? So why attack Bach Mai hospital and residential areas of our country? What about people's lives in the My Lai massacre? and the consequences of Agent Orange? pilots are tortured and families bombed are destroyed, some are orphaned, some have lost their children? I do not deny the above facts, the prisoners were also arrested for performing the duties of their superiors. BUT IN THE NOW, FRIENDSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT IS FIRST, WE RESPECT AND Appreciate YOUR CONTENT, but it seems, there is a little misunderstanding by me or yours in this content about vietnam

American must know that their country started this war first.

why don't you make video about civilian get kill during bombing raid

Video này đầy mùi dối trá :)) Thực tế tù binh Mỹ tại đây còn được đối xử tốt hơn cả cán bộ và người dân. Họ được tự do trong khuôn khổ nhà tù, được ăn uống đầy đủ, liên lạc với gia đình tại Mỹ,... Cũng phải nói thêm, có những thứ vẫn còn xa xỉ đối với chính người dân Việt Nam thời bấy giờ. Trong chiến dịch Line Backer 2, chúng tôi có 2 ca phẫu thuật song song nhau, 1 bên là anh lính phòng không và 1 bên là phi công Mỹ (vâng, chúng tôi đã cố gắng cứu cho dù đó là kẻ thù), sau buổi phẫu thuật đó, chỉ có phi công Mỹ còn sống. Và còn rất nhiều câu chuyện nữa. Hãy nhìn sang nhà tù Phú Quốc hay Côn Đảo xem cách mà tù nhân Bắc Việt đã bị đối xử, đó mới đúng là địa ngục trần gian.

Gigachad Vietcong

not cool bro

Oh no I've just bombed a whole group of enemies and I've lost count of how many more I had dropped earlier *gets shot down* oh no I hope the enemy would welcome me with a red carpet and pray to me as if I'm a god !

People talked about the brutality of Hanoi Hilton, we talked about the brutality of Operation Linebacker. Did you know how many innocent Vietnamese died because of the B52s' bombs in 1972?

Maybe don’t invade other countries…

Simple biased History, I love this dang channel.

If US and South Vietnam can torture and treats its prisoners horrifically, so can North Vietnam. Also, this sound really fake, or misleading. Especially when a significant amount of prisoners were sent home without any scars or even much of a scratch. And that is before we got into the little point there about mobs beatings...ever wondered why? Hungry, angry, and betrayed (twice betrayed: after WWII with the French and then the 2nd Indochina war - The first batch of professional soldiers were trained by US)... ...People were not happy that US are dropping liberty bombs and happy freedom gas that caused great damage to farmlands, deaths of poisoning, and horrific mutations due to lingering poisons. "They never charged Vietnamese for Warcrimes they commited". I laughed so hard. How about they charged themselves with warcrimes first before digging up other people warcrimes that might or might not be entirely made up? Or even just partly true. Because it certainly can't be as wide spread considering the amount of former POWs returning to Vietnam. A demonizing campaign made real because the propaganda said so.

some of my friends relatives recollect their memories about venting their anger for their fallen relatives because of USA bombing by torture those POW. I think I can understand why.

bro, USA did the same to Vietcong, they aint better

“Why don’t you Dodge this battle like you did in Vietnam? Cause you got so much chance as beating me as LeBron. I’m a flying machine like the world’s ever seen. You can fight one man, I can drive through a whole team!” Michael Jordan

Nice video Btw when is “The Brutallity of Phu quoc concentration Camp” gonna come out ?

And what did the US-army first do with the Vietnamese people?

Should never have been there to begin with.

Why US went to war with vietnam, what was the reason.

How about the brutality of American Bombs they threw ?

This is what happens when you enter another country with war

Weird, people in my country said Vietnam guards still friendly to prisonners bit you said they brutal to prisonners. Who was saying truth who say lie?

You know the feeling of losing your family during US-pilot bombing Hanoi ? Ever felt powerless when a fricking cluster bomb kill your parents ? Of course there have to be some "little" punishment for these pilot, even they have no idea they have bombed houses and hospitals.

Những hình ảnh giả dối đáng khinh bỉ

Việt Nam chúng tôi là một quốc gia độc lập cho đến khi các cường quốc thực dân nhảy vào xâu xé, họ đối xử với chúng tôi theo cách họ nghĩ là có lợi cho họ, vậy nên chúng tôi sẽ làm những việc cần làm để lấy lại lợi ích cho mình, mặc kệ các bạn nghĩ gì về điều đó. Miền Bắc, miền Nam rốt cục cũng là hậu quả việc tranh giành lợi ích và ảnh hưởng của các cường quốc thôi, đến lúc đất nước các bạn bị chia cắt và thù địch nhau, các bạn sẽ hiểu.

You guys recycle the same content too much

😢 🕊🇺🇸🕊

Imagine u go to other ppl land, kill them and steal their country then call them terrorist and u play like a victim "that's Americans in Iraq, vietnam, afganistan, and more"

Does this reminds of Guantanamo?

That's why John Rambo was created

tôi là người Việt Nam , Và kênh của anh đang đưa những thông tin sai lệch xuyên tạc về lịch sử chiến tranh việt nam tôi đề nghị anh gỡ video xuyên tạc này

The Vietnam War just felt like a real life horror movie.

Asteroid 2024❤

Please do a video on alied vs central powered trenches in ww1

I want to know true news, no fake

please do video about Con Dao prison!

Stop lying, We treat American POWs very carefully, but the North Vietnamese soldiers are treated the opposite by the other side after being released they are full of wounds.