The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre

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***NOTE: This is a PDF generated from an HTML file, so the page numbers are not correct. None of the content is changed, it is just not formatted the same as the real book*** Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London’s exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected to “special intelligence treatment.” The stakes were high: the war’s outcome could hinge on obtaining information German prisoners were determined to withhold. After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war crimes. This riveting book reveals the full details of operations at the London Cage and subsequent efforts to hide them. Helen Fry’s extraordinary original research uncovers the grim picture of prisoners’ daily lives and of systemic Soviet-style mistreatment. The author also provides sensational evidence to counter official denials concerning the use of “truth drugs” and “enhanced interrogation” techniques. Bringing dark secrets to light, this groundbreaking book at last provides an objective and complete history of the London Cage. Acknowledgements Introduction: Impounding the evidence 1 Genesis of the cage 2 A very ‘German’ Englishman 3 Cage characters: The interrogators 4 Cage characters: The ‘guests’ 5 Downstairs: Interrogation methods 6 Prison quarters 7 Caged lies: The truth drugs 8 The German ‘Great Escape’ 9 German-Jewish émigrés 10 A matter of justice 11 Knöchlein: The butcher of Le Paradis 12 The Sagan case 13 Norway and war crimes 14 Befriending the field marshal 15 Death in the cage 16 Torture: Myth or reality? Epilogue: The legacy