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This central prison was used as a place of detention and execution (by guillotine) for many Vietnamese resistance fighters.
Built by the French (architect: A. H Vildieu) over a period from 1886 to 1901, this central house served as a place of detention for many Vietnamese resistance fighters. A place of detention and executions (the guillotine, which is well highlighted, is there to bear witness to this), it was also a revolutionary school where the communists were able to elaborate their propaganda and fight "erroneous revolutionary opinions, spread the ideas of the proletarian revolution and prepare an armed revolt led by the workers in order to overthrow the dictatorial government of Indochina". From 1964 to 1973 the prison, dubbed the Hanoi Hilton, welcomed new occupants in the form of the U.S. pilots whose planes were shot down during the bombing of the north. One of them, Douglas Pete Peterson, shot down by the communist DCA in 1966 at the controls of his F4, will return to Vietnam as U.S. ambassador after the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries in July 1995. Another, Captain John McCain, shot down in 1967, an unfortunate rival of Barack Obama in the November 2008 presidential election, recounted his captivity in Faith of my Fathers. In 1993, part of the prison (which was still in use as a prison for common criminals) was demolished to make way for the construction of a commercial complex. A museum was set up in the preserved part, and a memorial now honours patriotic and revolutionary fighters.
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