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Originally Posted by maximusveritas
I admit that this would be news to me. I don't doubt that a few isolated incidents might have taken place, but you seem to be saying that this was widespread and condoned. What sources did you find this information from?
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Due to the amount of 'noise' on the issue (there are many claims of US/British torture of German POW's that seem very far fetched) I can't give you a link I would trust on this. I am going by memory of past research I did on the subject for a paper I wrote quite a while ago. The torture consisted of mostly sleep deprivation, denial of medical care (the case I recall was a German POW was refused an appendectomy operation until he talked), and other, more vague psychological torture. This was in a facility in the west coast of the US, and was obviously very top secret as Germany was relatively benign to US/British prisoners and we wanted to give no excuse to change this treatment.