Ep 10 "The Battle for Minds" (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

Korean War
The Western prisoners' Chinese captors attempt to "re-educate" them, and try to get the POWs to question their countries' involvement in the war. Communist prisoners of war were send to Kojedo POW camp. There were many problems on Kojedo ( Geojedo ): Horrid conditions, divisions among the POWs causing huge conflicts among the prisoners, and maltreatment by guards and by fellow prisoners. With all of its troubles, Koje-do became a major focal point of press coverage during the war. The North Koreans and Chinese alleged that the USA dropped disease-infected insects on North Korea and China in 1952. They took the threat seriously enough, it seems, that huge public health campaigns were undertaken in North Korea and China. Sympathetic scientists come to North Korea to see the charges for themselves, but the evidence was under the control of the Chinese. US POWs were coaxed into telling that they dropped "germ bombs," with the promise that they would be soon released. The commander of Kojedo Island POW camp, General Dodd, is captured by his own prisoners. He promised to stop forced "screening" of POWs. He was relieved of command upon release. A new prison commander takes over and orders attacks on some of the POW compounds. This impeded the truce talks for a year and the war dragged on.