Showing appreciation for hard work.

https://lemmy.world/post/14444347

Showing appreciation for hard work. - Lemmy.World

The Germans were utterly fucked when it came to gathering intelligence because threatening captives doesn’t work. Allies put captured generals in a luxury prison and bugged them.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098

The Nazi prisoners bugged by Germans

A top-secret operation in World War II bugged thousands of German prisoners, gleaning vital information about the Nazi war machine through "secret listeners" who were themselves German refugees

BBC News
And yet later some of them decided gitmo was a good idea…

some of them

Without looking into it, I can guarantee you that no one involved in British Intelligence in WW2 were in the US Army Military Police in Iraq 60 years later. Not everything is connected.

Someone really should look into this.

What I meant though is some of the allies, ie. The US specifically.