Disclosure: Nazis were tortured in British detention centers

Daily Mail published an excerpt from the book “Cruel Britannia” by Ian Cobain, in which the author shows, for the first time, how the Nazis prisoners were tortured in United Kingdom, after they were captured at the end of the Second World War. The publication notes that the revelations total change Britain’s image as a country that respects human rights and the rule of law.

According to Cobain, in London there was a detention center, called “London Cage” experienced by nearly 4,000 Germans. They were beaten, deprived of sleep and forced to stay long in the same position, and some were even killed and secretly buried.

In “London Cage” were brought officers who were believed to have “valuable information”. “The Cage” was based on several luxury villas in Kensington Palace Gardens, where rich people live today, and a place for the headquarters of the foreign embassies in London.

In the “London Cage” interrogation rooms, the policemen were trying to pull information from prisoners by any means. Prison chief was Colonel Alexander Scotland, who talked about it decades later in his memoirs. “Abandon all hope ye who enter here” was the motto by which he ruled Scotland “London Cage”, writes Daily Mail.

Fritz Knochlein, lieutenant colonel of the Waffen SS, the military branch of the Nazi Schutzstaffel organization, was captured by the British and accused of killing 124 soldiers. He was taken to the “London Cage”, where he was deprived of sleep for four days and four nights. Then, he was forced to walk in circles for four hours, at each turn being hit by a British guard.

Then he was forced to wash the stairs and toilets for days, while the British poured water over him, and when he “dared” to rest, was beated by the British. Eventually, the German lieutenant colonel was found guilty and hanged, writes Daily Mail. Apparently, Knochlein was not guilty of the murder of 124 British soldiers.

Daily Mail writes that some of the prisoners of war tortured at the “London Cage” had come to pray by the British to kill them after being starved, beaten systematically, and threatened that they will be electrocuted.