Washington, Oct 6 (Prensa Latina) A group of US ex soldiers that interrogated nearly 4,000 Nazi prisoners at a military base in Fairfax, Virginia, during World War II rejected current Pentagon methods against terror suspects.
They were at a ceremony to honor war vets that specially interrogated scientists and crews of German submarines and the interrogators so far had not spoken much of their methods, said the Washington Post.
Henry Kolm, 90, who questioned Rudolf Hess, one of Adolf Hitler’s aides, said they got more information from a German general at a chess or table tennis match than through torture.
Arno Weiss, president of the Nuclear Policy Attorney Committee, denied that his presence would mean support of the ongoing war, while George Frankel, 87, said he never laid hands on any one and got information with his own mental agility.
By contrast, President George W. Bush defended torture as means to get information from prisoners after The New York Times revealed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales okayed in 2005 tougher interrogation tactics.
That was the first time that the government explicitly condoned the use of physical and psychological torture methods like freezing temperatures and fake choking, adds the paper.