The Shadow Of Nazism Over US Toture Policy

[bobthedrummer]

How Nazism Shaped US War Policies: Thousands Of SS War Criminals Recruited To The U.S. By CIA-Pentagon After WWII by Jacqueline Marcus

http://www.constantinereport.com/shadow-nazism-us-torture-policy

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1. Another very interesting book on this subject is The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/the-devils-chessboard-all_b_8959302.html

Thanks for the post, bobthedrummer.

[bobthedrummer]

2. You're welcome, oldtimer.

[Judi Lynn]

3. If only more people will read this article. Everyone should be given the chance to see it.

From the article, something from which there is actually NO escape:

Historians have often asked the question: How could the German people allow someone like Hitler to rise to power? Why did they eagerly applaud Hitler’s racist speeches of hate and bigotry like sheep?

Simply amazing, isn't it? Unbelievable, and unbearable. It hasn't really been that long. There are still people living who remember it, and a lot of books written which are completely available for anyone who bothers to read.

Thank you, bobthedrummer.

[bobthedrummer]

4. You and I and many others "got" how the fascist evil became well-established today in HOMELAND, Inc.

It's blatant now to the point of the hate rallies, the ritual beatdowns and the use of neurolinguistic "trigger" words directed at women, people of color, religious communities, foreigners, etc. Just like what happened in the Weimar Republic imo.

Let's not forget that when it comes to US TORTURE the leadership comes from the same profession, medicine, as it did in the Third Reich. The US "medical model" of eugenics was the basis of the Holocaust and the insanity of Nazi "race hygiene"-and we've got our own 21st century versions from sea to shining sea.

I thank you Judi Lynn and all of our friends, past and present, for being the real DU reality-based community.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Always so good to see your comments. How strange it is to see info. we've heard,read about for years

rising before our eyes, coming to life, stepping off the pages of books, magazines, out of the memories of survivors, into our daily lives, trying to steal what's left of the earth.

I think their greed makes them too stupid to be well organized enough. Only time can tell, apparently.

Thank you, so much, for your amazing presence here and your horrendous courage. Vicious people get so crabby when light is being directed at their savage histories and shocking attitudes toward human beings.

[bobthedrummer]

5. "we tortured some folks" Not we, but yes indeed some "Americans" have and still do-including Nazis

Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From The Past (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 122 posted 2014)
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/index.htm

In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom (Cheryl Welsh 2008)
http://mindjustice.org/wisdom.htm

[Judi Lynn]

9. That choice of words undoubtedly nearly caused some of us to nearly swallow their tongues!

It's a little flippant, considering what has been at stake, isn't it?

Just saw your links, plan to read them later today. They look like absolute must read information.

Thank you for giving us so many opportunities to learn something, bobthedrummer.

[bobthedrummer]

7. Quite a shadow, isn't it? n/t

[bobthedrummer]

8. Solitary confinement is "no touch" torture, and it must be abolished (Chelsea E. Manning 5-2-2016)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2016/may/02/solitary-confinement-is-solitary-confinement-is-torture-6x9-cells-chelsea-manningno-touch-torture-and-it-must-be-abolished


Some "former" Nazi psychologists became the trainers of US "scientific" torturers, who are still in demand.

Robert Jay Lifton, Author of "The Nazi Doctors": Psychologists Who Aided Torture Should Be Charged (Democracy Now May 7, 2015)
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/7/robert_jay_lifton_author_of_the