World War II Torture Tactics
WW II Torture tactics
Some of the World war II torture tactics may have been the cruelest of all time. Stories from prisoners of war are horrifying, an example of one by Ian Cobain is, The German SS officer was fighting to save himself from the gallows for a terrible war crime and might say anything to escape the noose. But Fritz Knöchlein was not lying in 1946 when he claimed that, in captivity in London, he had been tortured by British soldiers to force a confession out of him Torturing them in London.
Britain has a reputation as a nation that prides itself on its love of fair play and respect for the rule of law. We claim the moral high ground when it comes to human rights. We were among the first to sign the 1929 Geneva Convention on the humane treatment of prisoners of …show more content…
Little wonder, perhaps, that it was felt acceptable for German prisoners to suffer in British interrogation centers.
And it should also be said that whatever went on within their walls, it paled into insignificance compared with the horrors the Nazis visited on millions of prisoners.
So, how can we be sure about the methods used at the London Cage? Because the man who ran it admitted as much and was hushed up for half a century by an establishment fearful of the shame his story would bring on a Britain that had been fighting for honesty, decency and the rule of law.
That man was Colonel Alexander Scotland, an accepted master in techniques of interrogation. After the war, he wrote a candid account of his activities in his memoirs, in which he recalled how he would muse, on arriving at the Cage each morning: ‘Abandon all hope on those who enter’
Because, he said, before going into detail: ‘If any German had any information we wanted, it was invariably extracted from him in the long
Some of the World war II torture tactics may have been the cruelest of all time. Stories from prisoners of war are horrifying, an example of one by Ian Cobain is, The German SS officer was fighting to save himself from the gallows for a terrible war crime and might say anything to escape the noose. But Fritz Knöchlein was not lying in 1946 when he claimed that, in captivity in London, he had been tortured by British soldiers to force a confession out of him Torturing them in London.
Britain has a reputation as a nation that prides itself on its love of fair play and respect for the rule of law. We claim the moral high ground when it comes to human rights. We were among the first to sign the 1929 Geneva Convention on the humane treatment of prisoners of …show more content…
Little wonder, perhaps, that it was felt acceptable for German prisoners to suffer in British interrogation centers.
And it should also be said that whatever went on within their walls, it paled into insignificance compared with the horrors the Nazis visited on millions of prisoners.
So, how can we be sure about the methods used at the London Cage? Because the man who ran it admitted as much and was hushed up for half a century by an establishment fearful of the shame his story would bring on a Britain that had been fighting for honesty, decency and the rule of law.
That man was Colonel Alexander Scotland, an accepted master in techniques of interrogation. After the war, he wrote a candid account of his activities in his memoirs, in which he recalled how he would muse, on arriving at the Cage each morning: ‘Abandon all hope on those who enter’
Because, he said, before going into detail: ‘If any German had any information we wanted, it was invariably extracted from him in the long