‘Hanoi Hilton’ exhibit offers skewed view of Vietnam War POW experience at Hoa Lo Prison

HANOI, Vietnam — To hear the official Vietnamese version, American soldiers imprisoned at the POW camp derisively named the “Hanoi Hilton” during the Vietnam War were actually treated downright humanely.

A museum at the site of the old Hoa Lo Prison in central Hanoi, where the late Arizona Sen. John …