The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre [RT] 978-0-300-22193-0

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The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre [RT]
978-0-300-22193-0

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Helen Fry

Table of contents :
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
Appendix: Staff at the London Cage
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Index

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