And yet later some of them decided gitmo was a good idea…
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KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The Germans were utterly fucked when it came to gathering intelligence because threatening captives doesn’t work. Allies put captured generals in a luxury prison and bugged them.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 months ago
some of them
Without looking into it, I can guarantee you that no one involved in British Intelligence in WW2 were in the US Army Military Police in Iraq 60 years later. Not everything is connected.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Someone really should look into this.
What I meant though is some of the allies, ie. The US specifically.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Yanks are also dogshit at espionage for this reason. I think by Allies this is more referring to the British, whose intelligence was instrumental in winning the war.
Madison420@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even regular pows had it pretty good, lots were out to work on farms in the Midwest then stayed and hung their shingle.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That was true of Nazi interrogators with the exception of Hanns Scharff. He’s famously known in military intelligence for his use of kindness to extract information from unknowing participants.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah. It’s in the name
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nazi is short for national socialist. That wouldn’t per se suggest unkindness by name alone. The appearance is deceptive, of course.