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

That was true of Nazi interrogators with the exception of Hanns Scharff. He’s famously known in military intelligence for his use of kindness to extract information from unknowing participants.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff

Hanns Scharff - Wikipedia

It’s almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.
Yeah. It’s in the name
Nazi is short for national socialist. That wouldn’t per se suggest unkindness by name alone. The appearance is deceptive, of course.
No, it was a joke. Like the “are we the baddies?” meme