Ebook: Name, rank, and serial number : exploiting Korean War POWs at home and abroad
Author: Young Charles Steuart
- Tags: Korean War 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons., Prisoners of war -- United States., Prisoners of war -- Korea (North), Korean War 1950-1953 -- United States -- Public opinion., Public opinion -- United States., HISTORY -- Military -- Korean War., HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century., HISTORY -- Asia -- China., Prisoners of war., Public opinion., Korea (North), United States.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Korea (North), United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise their treatment and criticize the war. When they came back, the Department of the Army and cooperative pundits said too many were weaklings who did not resist communist indoctrination or "brainwashing." Ex-prisoners were featured in a publicity campaign scolding the nation to raise tougher sons for the Cold War. This propaganda was based on feverish exaggerations that ignored the convoluted circumstances POWs were put in, which decisions in Washington helped create.
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