The secret history of torture

Michael Still reflects on ‘turning a blind eye’ to torture

Coverage of the Holocaust, relating to Holocaust Memorial Day, has prompted some odd memories.

In the mid-1950s I was a national serviceman and was posted to northern Germany. On one occasion I and some other soldiers happened, to our surprise, on the site of the Belsen concentration camp.

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