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Remains of Taipei Prison Wall

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The Taipei prison was based on a radial floor plan, a standard prison design of the 19th century. The prison walls were made with stones from the
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In 1944 and 1945, Allied airmen who had been shot down or crashed while on patrols over Taiwan were held in the Taipei Prison by the
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at the end of the 19th century. The stones were carved completely by hand from the quartzose sandstone quarries in the
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Plaques on the remains of Taipei's prison wall, one listing Allied airmen executed in the prison in 1945
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and sentenced to death. They were executed in the prison courtyard 58 days before the end of
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Taiwan’s darker past: Emerging histories of the World-war II prisoner of war camps
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In response, the Japanese colonial government built large prisons in
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