Hoten Camp

[3] Prisoners detained at the camp included Thomas J. H. Trapnell and Colonel Edwin H. Johnson,[4] as well as former Governor of Hong Kong Mark Aitchison Young.

Robert Peaty, a Major in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, was the senior ranking allied officer.

He was interviewed by the Imperial War Museum in 1981, and the audio recording tape reels are in the IWM's archives.

Peaty recounts: “I was reminded of Dante’s Inferno - abandon hope all ye who enter here…” His diary recorded the regular injections of infectious diseases that were disguised as preventative vaccinations.

186 have died in 5 days, all Americans.”[5] In August 1945, the camp was liberated by Soviet troops (262nd Rifle Division, 113th Infantry Corps, 39th army) and a small OSS team.