The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden

[Siegmund]

This article is worth reading by anyone who still doubts that the tomes of history are written by the victors, in large part to justify and cover up their own actions while demonizing their adversaries.

Eventually, courageous journalists and historians uncover the truth - which is never so black and white as the victors want us to believe.

The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden

· Treatment of suspected communists revealed
· Four court martialled after police inspector's inquiry

Ian Cobain
Monday April 3, 2006
The Guardian

Archive pictures of German prisoners held by the British following the second world war. Photographs: Martin Argles



For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain's clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government's files. Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically starved, as well as beaten, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme cold, were considered too shocking to be seen.

As one minister of the day wrote, as few people as possible should be aware that British authorities had treated prisoners "in a manner reminiscent of the German concentration camps".

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Others interrogated at the same prison, at Bad Nenndorf, near Hanover, included Nazis, prominent German industrialists of the Hitler era, and former members of the SS.

At least two men suspected of being communists were starved to death, at least one was beaten to death, others suffered serious illness or injuries, and many lost toes to frostbite.

The appalling treatment of the 372 men and 44 women who were interrogated at Bad Nenndorf between 1945 and 1947 are detailed in a report by a Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Tom Hayward.

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[Herac]

No Siegmund! They must be jewish to be that thin!

[Menydh]

Weren't the first ever concentration camps in history set by the Brits in South Africa, for the wives and the children of the Boer guerrillas during the Anglo-Boer War?

One must be absolutely indecent and/or nuts to want to associate with such a country..

[Llywarch Hen]

Or born and bred there?

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Llywarch Hen

Or born and bred there?

Yes, that could be the case too. However not central to the issue of this thread.

[Kernunnos]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Weren't the first ever concentration camps in history set by the Brits in South Africa, for the wives and the children of the Boer guerrillas during the Anglo-Boer War?

One must be absolutely indecent and/or nuts to want to associate with such a country..

Episodes like this abound in the history of every nation on this earth.

To stay in Europe, in Sicily the Syracusan kept the atheniese prisoners in quarries for months almost without food and water, extermination-camp like.

Starving and torturing prisoners was alas common and still today the practise comes up again.

This episode is however very interesting because it destroys the myth of the Good Nations against the Evil Nations war.

This without branding the english the same way the germans unjustly were.