More Faces of Prison Guards
The picture above is of the officers in charge of Camp Hoten, in Mukden, Manchuria. The first man, on the left, on the top row was Col. Matsuda. Col. Matsuda was the commander of Camp Hoten. Col. Matusuda spent six years in Sugamo prison for his crimes.
It is not known what happened to the others in the picture. The camp was captured by Russian troops and almost all the Japanese guards were taken prisoner, by the Russians. It is rumored that they all died in a Siberian prison camp, although that can not be verified.
In the fall of 1942, approximately, 1,500 POWs, soldiers from Bataan and Corregidor, arrived in Camp Hoten. Under the care of these guards, at least 250 men died in their first winter in Camp Hoten. Thanks to Hal Leith and James Brown for the picture.
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