The Kempetai was the twin sister of the Gestapo because of its brutality. The Kempetai aimed at destroying the most basic human dignity.

Les « Services Spéciaux » de l’armée Japonaise veillaient avec beaucoup d’attention à ce qu’aucune preuve ne soit conservée de leurs agissements criminels.

Si la photographie et le film purent révéler au monde l’horreur des camps de concentration nazis, rien ne permet d’illustrer ce que vécurent ses hommes qui furent enfermés dans des « cages » et traités sans la plus élémentaire considération de la personne humaine.

This is why it has been judged necessary to publish all the G.H.P. writings and drawings. Indeed it is a unique document in memory of those who went through the KEMPETAI hell.

The pictures are extracted from a leaflet that was published in Saigon on 1947.

These are the only available pictures that show how the prisoners were treated.

ANAPI wishes to tank the president of the “Citadelles et Maquis d’Indochine” (citadels and resistance movements in Indochina) who kindly accepted to share this document.