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Hỏa Lò Prison
The Hỏa Lò Prison was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam War when it was sarcastically known to American prisoners of war as the "Hanoi Hilton". The prison was demolished during the 1990s, though the gatehouse remains as a museum.
==French era==
The name Hoa Lo, commonly translated as "fiery furnace" or even "Hell's hole",〔 pp. 67–68.〕 also means "stove". The name originated from the street name phố Hỏa Lò, due to the concentration of stores selling wood stoves and coal-fire stoves along the street from pre-colonial times.
The prison was built in Hanoi by the French, in dates ranging from 1886–1889〔 to 1898〔 p. 52.〕 to 1901,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vietnam's Hanoi Hilton - Hell on Earth )〕〔 when Vietnam was still part of French Indochina. The French called the prison ''Maison Centrale''〔—literally, Central House, a traditional euphemism to denote prisons in France. It was located near Hanoi's French Quarter.〔 It was intended to hold Vietnamese prisoners, particularly political prisoners agitating for independence who were often subject to torture and execution.〔 p. 178.〕 A 1913 renovation expanded its capacity from 460 inmates to 600.〔 It was nevertheless often overcrowded, holding some 730 prisoners on a given day in 1916, a figure which would rise to 895 in 1922 and 1,430 in 1933.〔 By 1954 it held more than 2000 people;〔 with its inmates held in subhuman conditions,〔 it had become a symbol of colonialist exploitation and of the bitterness of the Vietnamese towards the French.〔
The central urban location of the prison also became part of its early character. During the 1910s through 1930s, street peddlers made an occupation of passing outside messages in through the jail's windows and tossing tobacco and opium over the walls; letters and packets would be thrown out to the street in the opposite direction.〔Zinoman, ''The Colonial Bastille'', p. 54.〕 Within the prison itself, communication and ideas passed. Indeed, many of the future leading figures in Communist North Vietnam spent time in Maison Centrale during the 1930s and 1940s;〔Logan, ''Hanoi'', p. 145.〕
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