Hitler's Hangmen by Brian Lett

Author:Brian Lett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History / Military / World war II
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Published: 2020-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Scotland clearly specialised in ways to break down Nazi arrogance and pride, after which interrogation would become easy. He gave an example of a group of U-boat men:

‘Many of these U-boat men prided themselves on being tough, and three of them, all officers, had to be shown that we were indifferent to their posing. When they arrived at the cage they used to lie in bed and order the guards around. (A deliberate tactic designed to impose psychological supremacy over their guards.) I was asked what should be done about them, and I replied that they should be treated the same as anybody in the British Service who refused to get out of bed. The next thing the U-boat officers knew was that their beds had been turned right over and that they were underneath. We took their uniforms away and set them to work in denim suits on cage chores for three days. We found the ruling of the Geneva Convention that prisoners may be employed on various duties and chores in a transit camp to be useful on many occasions for not only were we short-staffed at times, but it was a salutary exercise in discipline when awkward prisoners found themselves put to work with a bucket and scrubbing brush.’

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