It was a common perception in Adolf Hitler’s Germany that working as an assassin for the notorious Nazi’s secret police, the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), was a noble career in the Deutschland. It ...

Three of the torture techniques used at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and in U.S. prisons in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are choking with water, exposure to extremes of heat or cold, and forced ...

GESTAPO: INSTRUMENT OF TYRANNY (275 pp.) — Edward Crankshaw — Viking ($3.75). The great function of the Nürnberg trials was not the often disputed function of pinning the guilt for World War II on a ...