Reveal the history of US military mistreatment of prisoners of war (Figure)

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In 1966, American soldiers grabbed the hair of Vietnamese prisoners of war and walked through the jungle.

　　During World War II, American troops mistreated German prisoners of war.

　　In September 1939, Germany raided Poland and World War II broke out. During the war, Germany constantly captured the soldiers of the anti-fascist allies, put these prisoners into concentration camps, and brutally tortured and slaughtered them. People thought that only fascist countries abused prisoners of war, but the United States followed suit.

　　On December 7, 1941, the United States participated in World War II. Five months later, the US military had 32 prisoners of war. More than 20 months later, the number of prisoners of war captured by the United States in France suddenly increased to 48,000. In order to resettle these prisoners of war, the United States began to set up prison camps in its own land, except for leaving some prisoners of war in the prison camps of the warring countries.

　　In 1942, the first prisoners of war were sent to new york. Americans read a letter from President Roosevelt at that time: "You are not prisoners of war here, but guests of the United States." But the president’s promise was never fulfilled. For the captured 6 million German civilians and soldiers, the US military kept them in a giant fence surrounded by barbed wire, which lacked necessary sanitary facilities, and they did not provide sanitary and nutritious food for prisoners of war. During the detention, the US military also inhumanely tortured German prisoners of war. In order to obtain information, the US military often extorts confessions from prisoners of war by torture, beatings and intimidation. What’s more, the US military sometimes fails to provide corresponding medical assistance to German prisoners of war who are injured or sick due to fighting, resulting in more than 10,000 German prisoners of war dying of hunger, cold or disease. There are 380,000 German prisoners of war in the United States. During the war, the US military treated these prisoners with courtesy. However, after the war, the US authorities suddenly changed their attitude, regarded all German prisoners of war as heinous criminals, refused to let them eat enough, and adopted various corporal punishment measures. These prisoners of war were not released after the war, but were "presented" to France to help it rebuild its country. This is against the will of the prisoners of war, who complained during the migration. In the end, 700,000 German prisoners of war were sent to France and put into prison camps. Due to the extreme shortage of food in France after the war and the serious hatred of Germany in France, prisoners of war were tortured by hunger and torture. Many German prisoners of war were flogged and even shot, and at least 1,800 prisoners of war were killed in mine clearance. To this end,The International Red Cross has repeatedly protested to the United States about the unfair treatment of German prisoners of war.

　　Since the United States was an anti-fascist party in World War II, its treatment of prisoners of war was not much condemned by just people and relevant institutions.