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'Death Valley'

A few months after arriving on the front in Korea, Mr Hawkins was
captured and taken to a prisoner of war camp run by the Chinese - the
prisoners called it "Death Valley".

The compound was unheated, and at night, the temperature fell far below
zero.

He and his comrades suffered severe frostbite. He lost a toe on his left
foot and the tips of all of his other toes.

Within a week of arriving at the camp, American GIs began to die.

The intense cold meant those who survived did not have to worry about
the bodies decomposing, and in order to trick the prison guards into
providing more food rations, they would prop the corpses against the
wall so it seemed there were more people in the room.

Of the roughly 26 prisoners in Mr Hawkins' room, only 10 made it out of
the camp alive,

More than 60 years later he is moved to tears as he recalls waking up
and finding comrades dead beside him. He still suffers from nightmares.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15453730

Ja, der findes desværre personer i DK, der synes at nyde at forsvare
disse regimers lejre.

Mvh
Martin