# Anybody Ever Really Use This Torture?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 29, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-really-use-this-torture/145500 "2002-12-29T13:42:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-really-use-this-torture/145500/15 "2002-12-30T22:42:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by samclem \*  
> \*\*When I was a junior in high school, in 1960, we used to love to pass around salacious books by authors such as Henry Miller.
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> I remeber reading a passage in William Shirer’s(1959) _Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_ which had such a passage. It detailed a Nazi prison camp example–glass rod up the penis, and then breaking it. I can’t cite it better than that. \*\*

Well, I’ve skimmed my copy of Shirer’s book, but couldn’t find that incident mentioned. Then again, it’s not like its a fast read.

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