UK tortured prisoners during cold war
Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities during the early days of the cold war are published for the first time today after being concealed for almost 60 years.
The pictures show men who had suffered months of starvation, sleep deprivation, beatings and extreme cold at one of a number of interrogation centres run by the War Office in postwar Germany.
I guess I should not be surprised by these types of revelations. But when I think of early cold war years in Germany, I tend to think of East Germans being made into socialists and West Germans denazified and democratised. Somehow the fact that the West Germans communists must have been persecuted to a certain extent, never entered my thoughts. One more point to the western propaganda.
During the last few days I also found out for the first time about the betrayal of Cossacks by the Western powers.
posted by amitav at 4/03/2006 10:28:00 PM
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I guess I've missed that one. That must have really hurt. First they picked the wrong side in the Civil War in 1918. Then they had to flee the country and start over in the west as foreigners. But then just when they thought they were safe, they were given back to USSR as traitors after 1945 and probably got shot.
Actually Finns are not much better. As part of their deal with USSR they sent back more than 50 000 Ingrian Finns, who also got sent to Siberia, got shot or both. [A Step At A Time: Might and Mercy]
Seeing how I am quarter Ingrian Finn, I guess I should be annoyed. But no, could not care less, as long as it does not happen again.
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