The London cage : the secret history of Britain's World War II interrogation centre /

The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London's clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948. Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Serv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fry, Helen P. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Scotland, Alexander Paterson, > 1882-1965. Military interrogation > Great Britain > History > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Military intelligence > Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 > England > London > Prisoners and prisons. World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Prisoners and prisons. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoners of war > Great Britain. Prisoners of war > Germany. War criminals > Germany. World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > Great Britain. Military intelligence > Great Britain > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: impounding the evidence
Genesis of the cage
A very 'German' Englishman
Cage characters: the interrogators
Cage characters: the 'guests'
Downstairs: interrogation methods
Prison quarters
Caged lies: the truth drugs
The German 'great escape'
German-Jewish émigrés
A matter of justice
Knöchlein: the Butcher of Paradis
The Sagan case
Norway and war crimes
Befriending the field marshal
Death in the cage
Torture: myth or reality
Epilogue: the legacy
Appendix: Staff at the London cage.