Yes, the Wash Po history is cool. Note that the interrogators said they got more intelligence using their tactics than our modern, fascist, unAmerican torture ever did.
Yes, the Wash Po history is cool. Note that the interrogators said they got more intelligence using their tactics than our modern, fascist, unAmerican torture ever did.
Not too related, but our modern torture isn’t really that modern… Teddy Roosevelt’s Administration used similar water-type techniques on Fillipinos over 100 years ago. Go further back and we tarred and feathered the taxman.
Back to the Ft Hunt–interesting on the location. I had no idea.
Not too related, but our modern torture isn’t really that modern… Teddy Roosevelt’s Administration used similar water-type techniques on Fillipinos over 100 years ago. Go further back and we tarred and feathered the taxman.
In general, our treatment of German POWs as a whole was pretty progressive and brilliant. We separated hard core political nazis from apolitical German soldiers. We didn’t do much with the sequestered Nazis, but the others were offered many opportunities. The Army drafted university professors to teach the Germans English, democracy, and American history. The aim was to accept the fact that someday they were going to have to let these prisoners go and up until then the ordinary German had a very tainted exposure to concepts like democracy. Many of the German POWs went home to Germany and became pro-western bulwarks in the new West Germany.
In general, our treatment of German POWs as a whole was pretty progressive and brilliant. We separated hard core political nazis from apolitical German soldiers. We didn’t do much with the sequestered Nazis, but the others were offered many opportunities. The Army drafted university professors to teach the Germans English, democracy, and American history. The aim was to accept the fact that someday they were going to have to let these prisoners go and up until then the ordinary German had a very tainted exposure to concepts like democracy. Many of the German POWs went home to Germany and became pro-western bulwarks in the new West Germany.
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