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Essay on The North Korean Prisoner Camps

One of the misconceptions about the North Korean prisoner camps, where the extraordinary amount of brainwashing happening in them. The communists gave the American prisoners of war some reeducating. Brainwashing proved in the long run to be unproductive, but it did keep 21 Americans in camp. The American armed forces tried to find out what really happened with their own psychologists, but the information taken was inconclusive. Some of the POW's in the North Korean camps where corrupted with the communism toxin, which made a few of the men turn on their own friends and country. No Americans ever escaped from the Communism prison camps. The death rate was the highest in history, 38%.

Lt. Col. William E Mayer, one of the psychiatrists who participated in the interviewing and Eugene Kinkead, a free lance writer The revolution of the 1930's proved that the American adolescence church life and schooling was developing a good character in the children's society, which intern translated itself onto the line of battle. Where the American POW's showed great weakness for the will to survive. As the author of the American Prisoners of War in Korea H. H. Wubben points out about the armed forces, "The average soldier gave little concern to the conflicting values underly

Quotes talked about in this paper

  • He was quoted in his writings by saying "profound changes in behavior and values" being "effected without physical torture or extreme deprivation".
  • He acknowledged "You really can't worry about the other fellow; you are at the line of existence yourself. If you go under that, you die. You would help each other if you could. Most would try; I wouldn't say all".

Names referenced in this essay
H. H. Wubben, Philip Deance, Stanley Elkins, a free lance writer, Morris Wills, Dr. Harold Wolff, Lt. Col. William E Mayer, Kinkead-Mayer,

Organizations mentioned in this report
Advisory committee,

Locations included in this report
Korea,

Health Conditions talked about in this report
depression, malnutrition, cold,

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