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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating London Cage 1st edition. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. 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 London Cage 1st edition the full details of operations at the London Cage and subsequent efforts to hide them. Bringing dark secrets to light, this groundbreaking book at last provides an objective and complete history of the London Cage. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The London London Cage 1st editionplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. London Cage 1st edition order. Dec 24, Eric Lee rated it it was amazing Shelves: history. In the end, this is a book about morality. Located in Kensington Palace Gardens, it was closed down in For most of that time, it was a place that German prisoners of war passed through, where London Cage 1st edition were questioned, and valuable intelligence was gathered. From onwards, it collected evidence for use in war crimes trials. No one questions that the Cage, and its commanding offi In the end, this is a book about morality. No one questions that the Cage, and its commanding officer Colonel Alexander Scotland, did collect useful intelligence that helped the Allies win the war. And it is also clear that Colonel Scotland's team did excellent work in helping to prepared the cases that led London Cage 1st edition imprisonment, and sometimes hanging, of German Nazi war criminals in the years after The moral issue is that despite Colonel Scotland's insistence that everything done under his command was strictly in accord with the Geneva Convention, there is some evidence of mistreatment of some prisoners. There have been allegations of torture, and there were four suspicious deaths in custody at the London Cage. Helen Fry has done an outstanding job with this book, going deep into the archives to find new sources and to attempt to reconstruct what actually happened at the London Cage. Among her many interesting finds was the original, uncensored memoir by Colonel Scotland himself. The reputation of Colonel Scotland reminds me a bit of what happened with Arthur London Cage 1st edition Harris, who led the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. Harris clearly contributed to a successful conclusion of the war, though the tactics he employed -- which destroyed entire German cities -- proved embarrassing to some after the war. It took several decades, but eventually a statue London Cage 1st edition erected to Harris in London, and Bomber Command got its own memorial in Green Park. One wonders if some day Colonel Scotland will also be recognised for his contribution to victory. If that ever happens, this book will have made an important contribution to rediscovering the work he and his staff did in the London Cage. Dec 16, Giselle Jakobs rated it liked it Shelves: military-war-espionage. The article took the lid off London Cage 1st edition established that torture had been used at the London Cage. Cobain's follow-up book, Cruel Britannia pretty much put a nail in the coffin. Without a doubt, the London Cage, under the command of Lt. Alexander Scotland, had been the scene of hideous events against members of the German Army as well a The London Cage stormed into public view over 10 years ago when Ian Cobain published a provocative article in The Guardian - The Secrets of the London Cage. Alexander Scotland, had been the scene of hideous events against members of the German Army as well as Nazi officers. What more could be said about it? InHelen Fry tackled the subject in a full-length book. The write-up sounded promising. An excerpt from the inside cover of the book jacket tell us that: "Until now, what has happened at the London Cage has remained a secret closely guarded by the Home Office. This riveting book reveals the full details of operations there as well as the subsequent efforts to hide them. Helen Fry's extraordinary original research paints rich portraits of the interrogators and their prisoners, and gives disturbing, compelling accounts of daily life revolving around systemic Soviet-style mistreatment. Fry also provides sensational evidence to counter official denials concerning the use of 'truth drugs' and 'enhanced interrogation' techniques. Scotland, interrogators, "guests", interrogation methods, truth drugs and various war crimes carried out against Allied forces by the Nazis. London Cage 1st edition book is not arranged chronologically, so each chapter tends to jump around a fair bit in time and space, with the exception of the war crimes chapters which are relatively coherent. The author takes great pains to point out how the information gathered at the London Cage between and helped Allied forces defeat the Nazis. I've read Lt. Stephens' report on MI5's secret interrogation London Cage 1st edition Camp where violence was ostensibly verboten. Stephens was working on the Camp report while his subordinates were abusing prisoners at the Bad Nenndorf London Cage 1st edition centre. I London Cage 1st edition to admit that Helen Fry's book was a bit of a challenge. While the book is extremely well-researched, the presentation of the material, particularly in the first half of the book made me question the editorial process. In a nutshell, the material is poorly organized and disjointed. Space is devoted to introducing the well-researched background of minor individuals but these people are never referred to again. At times it feels as if material has been cut from the book, thereby affecting the continuity and flow of the narrative. The war crimes chapters were London Cage 1st edition familiar as they are described at some length London Cage 1st edition Scotland's own book. Without referring to the footnotes, it was difficult to tell what material was drawn from Scotland's unpublished memoirs confiscated by the authorities before the abridged version was published and what material was drawn from his published book. One chapter dealt with truth drugs but, other than the first and last paragraphs, made no mention of how truth drugs related to the London Cage. The only concrete evidence of truth drugs being used by Lt. Scotland was when he showed up at Camp with a syringe that he promised would London Cage 1st edition a prisoner talk as noted in Guy Liddell's London Cage 1st edition. Scotland is also quoted in various places as stating under oath: " Perhaps physical force was not used "during" interrogations but does that mean it wasn't used before interrogations or between interrogation sessions? Perhaps prisoners were not beaten "to extract information" but were simply beaten to soften them up prior to interrogation? The book leaves a lot of questions unanswered but the author does note that "in times of war and extreme tension, moral boundaries can often become blurred". While there is no doubt that the interrogation results from the London Cage helped the Allies win the war London Cage 1st edition the Nazis and brought many war criminals to justice, one is left wondering Or is justice a one-way street? High-ranking German army commanders were tried and found guilty for the crimes of their subordinates. And yet, in the face of overwhelming evidence that their subordinates brutalized prisoners in their charge, Lt. Scotland London Cage 1st edition Lt. Stephens were either not tried Scotland or were tried and acquitted Stephens re: Bad Nenndorf. Brian Simpson noted in his book In the Highest Degree Odious - all power corrupts - particularly power exercised in secret p. Jan 25, Krepde rated it it was amazing. Few subjects can be as hard to nail down as a secret interrogation centre linked to allegations of torture. A fascinating study of a frightening centre where prisoners of war and, later, those accused of war crimes were subjected to intense scrutiny. Fry, too, prods at the nature of its head, a man barred from Campthe London wartime interrogation centre for suspected spies, because of his tendency t Few subjects can be as hard to nail down as a secret interrogation centre linked to allegations of torture. Fry, too, prods at the nature of its head, a man barred from Campthe London wartime interrogation centre for suspected spies, because of his tendency to use violence. Truth can be an inconvenience for secret organisations and the author has done remarkably well to glean as much information as she has about a place that will always be steeped in controversy. Jun 28, Ted rated it it was ok. The author would have benefited greatly if she would have partnered with a subject matter expert in putting this together. As it is, she fumbles through relating the interrogation story at the center of the piece London Cage 1st edition does a poor job of presenting an interesting piece of WWII history. Through the first half of the book, she constantly teases London Cage 1st edition she's going to present the naughty bits - implying prisoner abuse and torture - later in the story. As someone with a professional interest in the history of tactical and strategic interrogation, I found her brief mentions of intelligence support to interrogation planning and the approaches to the different types of sources to be a surface-level treatment at best of what should have been a substantial part of the narrative. She touches on the importance of technical experts to support interrogations of U-boat and bomber crewmen, but never really discusses it substantively. The same thing goes for approaches: She brings up most of the standard approaches we know all, file-and-dossier, variations on manipulation of emotion and pride, repetition, rapid-fire, etc. She doesn't mention prisoner screening until halfway through the book, and even then doesn't really discuss the effort as a structured precursor to detailed interrogation. The London Cage by A P Scotland - AbeBooks

Between July and Septemberhowever, these three magnificent houses were home to one of the country's most secret military establishments: the London office of the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, known colloquially as the London Cage. The London Cage was run by MI19, the section of the War Office responsible for gleaning information from enemy prisoners of war, and few outside this organisation knew exactly what went on beyond the London Cage 1st edition barbed-wire fence that separated the three houses from the busy streets and grand parks of west London. Years later Tony Whitehead, a consultant psychiatrist in Brighton, recounted in his memoirs how, as a young aircraftsman delivering a belligerent SS sergeant to the Cage, he was shocked London Cage 1st edition see a German naval officer in full dress uniform on his hands and knees, cleaning the entrance hall floor. An enormous Guardsman stood with one foot on the prisoner's back, casually London Cage 1st edition a smoke. When Whitehead collected his prisoner three days later, the man was completely subdued, rarely looked up, and addressed him as sir. By examining thousands of documents stored at the National Archives, formerly the Public Record Office, as well as the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the Guardian has established what happened to this prisoner, and many others like him. The London Cage was used partly as a torture centre, inside which large numbers of German officers and soldiers were subjected to systematic ill- treatment. In total 3, men passed through the Cage, and more than 1, were persuaded to give statements about war crimes. The brutality did not end with the war, moreover: a number of German civilians joined the servicemen who were London Cage 1st edition there up to The Cage was commanded by Lieutenant London Cage 1st edition Alexander Scotland, a forceful, outspoken man deemed to have the perfect background. Although English, the colonel had served briefly in the German army in what is now Namibia shortly after the turn of the century, and was later awarded the OBE for his work interrogating German prisoners during the first world war. Inat the age of 57, he was recalled for service. The Cage had space for 60 prisoners at any time, and five interrogation rooms. Scotland had around 10 officers serving under him, plus a dozen NCOs who served as interrogators and interpreters. Security was provided by soldiers from the Guards regiments, selected, one archived document asserts, "for their height rather than their brains". Among the documents stored at the National Archives at Kew is the manuscript of Scotland's memoirs. In his first draft he recalled how he would muse, on arriving at the Cage each morning: "'Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Officials begged Scotland to quietly lock the manuscript away, then threatened him with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Special Branch detectives were sent to raid his retirement home at Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. The Foreign Office urged suppression of the book, as it would assist "persons agitating on behalf of war criminals". An assessment by MI5 London Cage 1st edition out that Scotland had detailed repeated breaches of the Geneva convention, with his admissions that prisoners had been forced to kneel while being beaten about the head; forced to stand to attention for up to 26 hours; threatened with execution; or threatened with "an unnecessary operation". The London Cage 1st edition was eventually published after a seven-year delay, and London Cage 1st edition after all incriminating material had been deleted. It is now clear, however, that Scotland could have tried to reveal far more. Within the National Archives are documents from two official inquiries into the methods employed at the Cage, one which heard evidence that guards were under orders to knock on some prisoners' cell doors every 15 minutes, depriving them of sleep, and another which concluded with "the possibility that violence was used" during interrogations. There is also a long and detailed letter of complaint from one SS captain, Fritz Knoechlein, who describes his treatment after being taken to the Cage in October Knoechlein alleges that because he was "unable to make the desired confession" he was stripped, given only a pair of pyjama trousers, deprived of sleep for four days and nights, and starved. The guards kicked him each London Cage 1st edition he passed, he alleges, while his interrogators boasted that they were "much better" than the "Gestapo in Alexanderplatz". After being forced to perform rigorous exercises until he collapsed, he says he was compelled to walk in a tight circle for four hours. On complaining to Scotland that he was being kicked even "by ordinary soldiers without a rank", Knoechlein alleges that he was doused in cold water, pushed down stairs, and beaten with a cudgel. Later, he says, he was forced to London Cage 1st edition beside a large gas stove with all its rings lit before being confined in a shower which sprayed extremely cold water from the sides as well as from above. Finally, the SS man says, he and another prisoner were taken into the gardens behind the mansions, where they were London Cage 1st edition to run in circles while carrying heavy logs. At the time Knoechlein made these allegations he was facing the death penalty, having been convicted of the murder of British soldiers, including 98 members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment. These soldiers had been massacred by men under Knoechlein's command after being taken prisoner on the retreat to Dunkirk in May He was in a desperate position, and may have been making desperate allegations in a bid to escape the hangman. Nevertheless, his complaint was taken seriously by War Office officials, who considered whether to convene an inquiry. They eventually decided against this, on the grounds that this would mean delaying Knoechlein's execution. There was no legal precedent for this, one official noted, besides which "any court of inquiry into these allegations would be futile". Similar torture allegations London Cage 1st edition inand again the following London Cage 1st edition, when 21 Gestapo and police officers were tried for the murder of 50 RAF officers who had been shot after tunnelling their way out of Stalag Luft III, the breakout recreated in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. The court in Hamburg was told that many of the defendants had been starved and systematically beaten at the London Cage, confined in the cold water shower, and "threatened with electrical devices". Among the defendants was Erich Zacharias, a sergeant in the Gestapo's frontier police. The only evidence against him was his confession which, MI5 noted in its assessment of Scotland's memoir, had been signed only because "being a prisoner in their hands, he had been worked on psychologically". Zacharias insisted that London Cage 1st edition had also been beaten. Twenty of the defendants were convicted and 14 were hanged, Zacharias among them. It is impossible to discern, from the War Office archives, whether Scotland was regarded by this time as a maverick whose methods were to be quietly overlooked, or whether he was acting with clear, official approval. It is clear, however, by late there was "disquiet about his methods" being expressed at the headquarters of the British army of the Rhine. By then the Red Cross was aware of the existence of the Cage, although only because its location had inadvertently been included on a list of PoW camps sent to the organisation. In a lengthy memo to the War Office, Scotland London Cage 1st edition that he had identified the London Cage 1st edition responsible for disclosing its location, and that this man had promised "that this blunder would not be repeated". Scotland went on to argue that the Red Cross need not be admitted, because his prisoners were either civilians, or "criminals within the armed forces", and neither, he said, were protected by the Geneva convention. Furthermore, he wrote: "The secret gear which we use to check the reliability of information obtained must be removed from the Cage before permission is given to inspect the building. This work will take a month to complete. It was a further 18 months before the Red Cross could enter the Cage. Its inspector found little evidence of ill-treatment but, as he noted in subsequent reports, 10 prisoners in the worst physical condition appeared to have been moved to other PoW camps the night before his arrival, and there was evidence that any prisoner who lodged a complaint in his presence would suffer reprisals. Despite the growing number of complaints it was receiving about the London Cage, the International Committee of the Red Cross eventually decided to do nothing "through official channels" as it had been assured that its closure was imminent, and because it feared such action would be against the interests of the men still detained there. As the work of the Cage was wound down, the interrogation of prisoners was switched to a number of internment camps London Cage 1st edition Germany. And there is evidence that the treatment meted out in these places was, if anything, far worse. While many of the papers relating to these interrogation London Cage 1st edition remain sealed at the Foreign Office, it is clear that one camp in the British zone became particularly notorious. At least two German prisoners starved to death there, according to a court of inquiry, while others were shot for minor offences. In one complaint lodged at the National Archives, a year-old German journalist being held at this camp said he had spent two years as a prisoner of the Gestapo. And not once, he said, did they treat him London Cage 1st edition badly as the British. UK news. The secrets of the London Cage. Ian Cobain. Topics UK news Second world war Reuse this content.