https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/historical-person/politician/van-roden-edward-l/801/

Take note of the source:

“American investigators at the U. S. Court in Dachau, Germany, used the following methods to obtain confessions: Beatings and brutal kickings. Knocking out teeth and breaking jaws. Mock trials. Solitary confinement. Posturing as priests. Very limited rations. Spiritual deprivation. Promises of acquittal.”

At issue was the behavior of the American prosecution team. Though van Roden did not mention it, this team, like most at Nuremberg and Dachau, were heavily Jewish. The Malmedy team included Burton Ellis, Paul Shumacker, William Perl, Morris Ellowitz, Herbert Strong, and Harry Thon, along with a certain Kirschbaum, a Steiner, and a Rosenthal. The legal advisor was Col. A. H. Rosenfeld.

“Our investigators [Ellis, Perl et al.] would put a black hood over the accused’s head and then punch him in the face with brass knuckles, kick him, and beat him with rubber hose. Many of the German defendants had teeth knocked out. Some had their jaws broken. All but two of the Germans, in the 139 cases we investigated, had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair. This was Standard Operating Procedure with American investigators. Perl admitted use of mock trials and persuasive methods including violence and said the court was free to decide the weight to be attached to evidence thus received. But it all went in.”

The articles notes that these cruelties were Standard Operating Procedure at Nuremberg Trials. ...

Yeah, the fantasy that the USA is a perfect fair nation is a big marketing scheme. Reality is frightening when actual history is known or allowed to be known.

Didn't someone here once post a story, with pictures, of the US still running a concentration camp in Western Germany in 1947?

Link for what looks like purchase: https://www.onread.com/book/Americans-torture-Germans-to-extort-confessions-1083567

So what. People are beyond naive. War remember. All fair.

Anyone know the paper? Would love to have a full newspapers com sub to look for this sort of stuff.