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.
Tortured by British soldiers? In captivity? In London? The idea seems incredible.
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 war.
Surely, you would think, the British avoid torture? But you would be wrong, as my research into what has gone on behind closed doors for decades shows.
It was in 2005 during my work as an investigative reporter that I came across a veiled mention of a World War II detention centre known as the London Cage. It took a number of Freedom Of Information requests to the Foreign Office before government files were reluctantly handed over.
From these, a sinister world unfolded — of a torture centre that the British military operated throughout the Forties, in complete secrecy, in the heart of one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in the capital.
Source and full story: Daily Mail (UK), 26 Oct 2012
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Re: How Britain tortured Nazi PoWs: The horrifying...
Its frightening to read the comments on this piece. So many Brits still believe the mythology that everything old blighty has done is good. They forget or never knew that the concept of concentration camps was a British invention, not something conjured up by Nazi Germany and they are blind to the fact that torture has been an integral part of the British imperial project since its inception.
Re: How Britain tortured Nazi PoWs: The horrifying...
That’s why I say it isn’t just Jews who sustain the holo-hoax. The entire West does. It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card. No matter how many atrocities the Allies committed (and still commit today), the Germans were always “worse,” because of the hoax.
And since most Westerners play this game, most Westerners are Judaic in spirit. Thus, Jews did not “take over” the West. Jews merely found a sewer than stank as badly as Jews do. The stench is so foul that even when people stop believing in the hoax, they still say that Nazi Germany was “evil.”
Thus, at that newspaper article we see comments like this:
“Compared to what the Germans done to the Jewish people no comparison.”