Those types of experiments are also documented in Shirer’s book. Simply amazing that humans have the capacity to do this type of thing.
For some reason, an actual cite seems inappropriate in this thread.
Well Yah, I understand all of that. I am not doubting the veracity of documentated Japanese cruelty in world war 2. I am doubting the actual torture technique.
OK, have you seen the claws that are used to charge batteries with? They can save their electricty! Those things alone look painful.
I seem to remember the torture from the OP as being in Michener’s <b>The Bridge at Andou</b>, which was about the Hungarian uprising in 1956. I no longer have the book, but there was one chapter about what the Soviets did to the protestors in prison, and this was one of them. They mentioned having to hold the guy down when he peed.
Does anybody have this book, to confirm? Not that Michener is necessarily a primary source, mind you.
why? I would think the damage was already done.
Are there any unanswered General Questions remaining in this thread?
yes, I still have one
I’m still wondering why a school teacher would go out of his way to talk to a student about insertions up penises, but I’m not sure I want to hear the answer.
And there is still the question of how many visionaries, anticipating the modern trend towards painful self-mutilation, volunteered, thus inadvertantly becoming the avant-garde.
Gairloch
We were discussing the Bataan Death March and this was supposedly used on a US soldier who tried to escape.
I had a history teacher who claimed to have been at Pearl Harbor and seen the Japanese planes flying overhead, and described it in graphic detail.
This was, oh, 1992.
He was 36 years old.
Seriously, parents should be MUCH more concerned about the people they leave their children with all day.