Ebook: British Interrogation Techniques in the Second World War

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Britain vs. Germany; 2 Making a Man Talk; 3 The Smallest Detail; 4 The Usefulness of Traitors; 5 Masters of the Microphone; 6 Tiger Tanks and Enigma Machines: the Great Successes and the Disastrous Failures; 7 The London Cage; 8 Post-War Interrogation: Bad Nenndorf; 9 Chained Lions: Characters of the Interrogation Files; Bibliography; Copyright.;The British system of interrogation has always been distinctly different from other countries. Subtler, quieter and far more devious than its contemporaries, it has been admired by those who have inadvertently succumbed to it. So much so that the Nazis adopted some of the British methods in their own intelligence operations. During the Second World War the system became highly developed and vast numbers of people were employed in the collating and recovery of information. Vital data about military advance such as the Enigma machine and the Tiger Tank were wrung from prisoners not by force but.