Torture

Small minds tend to believe that THEY, and people like them, are superior. They tend to believe that since they are superior they have the right to do whatever they want to people who are inferior. These are the same type of people who were participating in racial hatred during the 50's and 60's.

Usually these types of people are actually ignorant and weak. They attempt to build up their own self image by tearing down someone else. It did not work well for them during the Holocaust and it still doesn't work.

Hitler and his followers tortured the Jews because they believed tht they had the right. They truly believed that they were the "master race". They truly believed that the financial problems of Germany during the 30's was caused by the Jews. They ignored the fact that they brought on much of their own problems when they started WW1, and that the problems of the 30's was little more than the reaction of the rest of the world to their aggression of WW1. the Nazis were selfish people and to whom they tried to kill they managed to fight back. and this makes me mad because it is so not right you know.

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To whomever wrote the above answer.

You are giving your personal opinion on the matter you are not stating WHY they did it.

You should read the book "The Castle in The Forest", give it some thought and then you will see things beyond just mere superficial appearance.

Hitler had a chain of reasons why he should punish Jews. Didn't make it right what he did though. But thinking he was superior was difinitely NOT it.

Chinese Water torture, is when a person is locked up to where the victim cannot move. Then cold water is slowly dripped one drop at a time (usually 1 drop every 6-14 seconds). It eventually drives the victim crazy A) (Because they are waiting for the drop each time B) Because they can't use their hands to wipe off the water or warm up their face from the cold water. This method of torture has no proof ever being used thought Hudini did try it out.

Gas chambers, testing (on twins), starvation,shooting,disease (caused the death of many but not directly caused by the nazis) and stabbing (infants) were some

it was used for crushing a head

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Torture was used, but was not necessarily common. There were many countries, and many legal codes during the thousand years the Middle Ages lasted, and while some used torture, perhaps even most at one time or another, there were some places where torture would certainly have been very unusual practice to say the least.

The Church repeatedly banned torture, and the effect of certain papal bulls was that clergy were not permitted to take part in any legal proceedings that included torture. Nevertheless, there were certainly tortures used by clergy in inquisitions in some parts of Europe.

Torture was more common in some countries during certain periods of time. While Vlad the Impaler comes to mind as a well known practitioner, the Plantagenet kings of England are remembered for their use of it.

Two practices are particularly well known. One is the English execution of certain criminals who were hanged, drawn, and quartered. The hanging was done simply to give the criminal time to suffer the pain of a noose. He was supposed to be hanged in such a way that his neck would not break, and cut down before losing consciousness. He was then cut to pieces with some care to produce pain and humiliation. The pieces were then shipped to various places for public display. Guy Fawkes, when undergoing this, stepped off the platform with the noose around his neck so the fall would break his neck and he would not suffer the pains associated with the rest of the procedure. Guy Fawkes' commission of treason is probably the most notorious in the history of England.

The other practice was burning at the steak. The pain of this varied from one instance to another, with many people simply suffocating before they were burned, and other others being purposely made to suffer as much pain as possible.

Many tortures were committed secretly, and these were probably most commonly used to extract confessions. They probably included everything one might imagine.

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He would dip their pigtails in the inkwell.

Yes, Alexander did allow slavery. While the city of Tyre was under siege, Alexander sold the women and children into slavery.

You would get put in the stocks or you would get hung.

Glad this was asked they did not kill or harm the red heads at all, well as long as they came from what they call Pure Blood. But also if you are curious the Nazis not only welcomed Red heads they adored them because the red head gene came from Viking and Scandinavian Descent. Hope I helped.

Indications are that Hitler was very squeamish for a dictator, and he left the torture to his underlings who less sensitive. There was at least one exception. Some Germans who were convicted in the 1944 assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair were hanged with piano wire from meat hooks so they would strangle slowly, and films were made of it for Hitler to watch.

Mainly existing devices were pressed into service- or stretched out on a rack! As France already had capital punishment by this means- Guillotines were used in Vichy France- in one case an abortionist was executed by this means. There were various forms of inhuman (tests) of gas, chemical warfare equipment, survival gear- by dunking POWs in cold water without survival gear for ( control) or test purposes- unlike Army and Navy Volunteers who would have- say heat- packls in their life vests when ( Dunked) Altitude and decompression chambers were tragically misused by different branches of the services.

why did they get tortured

Do not read this if you have a weak stomach people... I think the worst torture would be sticking a burning hot piece of metal (about 200 degrees)

Up the hole of a guys penis.

That would be the ultimate torture and extremely painful.

OUCH.

Also, hanging them up side down and putting the wasabi in your NOSE OUCHx30000.

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Not as wide spread as people think. The farther was the head of the family and if anyone did something wrong he took care of it. Very seldom did it go outside of the family. When it did there might be torture involved.

They technically weren't called "torture camps", they were called "concentration camps" and its was where Jewish men and women were tooken and the women had to cut their hair really short like men and had to wear ragged old clothes.
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In the World War II era, the German Gestapo (or, secret state police service) was just one of the various German organizations responsible for handling 'the Jewish question' for Germany. In general, the Gestapo's torture methods included a wide variety of physical and mental humiliations and torments. Since its primary responsibilities were the guarding, rounding up, and transporting of Jewish persons 'en masse' to execution centers (including executions themselves), however, its central culpability in respect to the inhumane treatment of Jews is tied to the physical beatings, mental and emotional belittlement, and on-the-spot shootings of Jews caught in these 'round-ups,' rather than in individual torture-methods that the organization's officials utilized in, for example, the treatment of political prisoners.

The British received harsh treatment from the Patriots in many ways. One way is that the Patriots covered the British soldiers in hot tar and then goose feathers. They burned British townsfolk's houses down because they honored King George the third. They also threw rocks at his picture because they dispised him so much. Lastly, they made effigies (dummies) of him and burned them. They were not as cruel as you think that they were. You can be surprised sometimes.

Not personally!

probably William the Conqueror of the middle ages.. he is the one responsible for massive construction of this chairs.. so probably he is also the one who invented it.

Most US Soldierss were not captured. Those circumstances were usually reserved for US Airmen who had been shot down over North Vietnam. Torture may have occurred to those downed airmen, whose status was POW (Prisoner of War). Refer to books and websites concerning POWs in the Vietnam War.

Typically, no, one can not die from Chinese water torture.

The answer previously provided details the death by hanging, drawin, and quartering of the convicted Guy (Guido) Fawkes.

Fawkes had somewhat cooperated with his captors after having been arrested in the cellars below Parliament's chambers at Westminister Hall. Fawkes gave a partial list of co-conspirators, His Majesty, King James, who was to have been the primary victim of the Gunpowder Plot, was not satisfied that Guy Fawkes had fully confessed and cooperated with authorities. The King, therefore, wrote out a detailed set of tortures, becoming progressively more intense and maiming and painful. This writing was communicated to the Lord Lieutentant of the Tower and still exists.

Formally, the King's letter indicated that His Majesty desired that Guy Fawkes be "put to the question" because Fawkes was bound over to the civil law and the legal process could not further proceed until Fawkes had properly pleaded his crime.

Generally, Fawkes would have been asked again to detail his confession. If not inclusive of further parties to the Plot against the King's person, he would have been roughed up--usually, slapped and/or punched in the face with a gloved head. (The accused still had to appear in court.) More sturdy men could have withstood this abuse. The next step, after a brief rest period was to choke the victim with a cloth to the point passing out, release the cloth and let the victim revive. This was mostly a terror technique. The next step was to use thumbscrews on the non-writing hand of a man who could read and write. This vice-like device was placed on either side of the thumb and slowly tightened to the point of either breaking the thumb or dislocating the first joint. This torture was quite painful and caused the victim to pass out. This torture could be repeated on the other fingers, again non-writing hand first.

If this got no answer to the question, the boot could be used. A wooden vice-like device that resembled a wooden half boot that was slipped over the barefoot of the victim. As with the thumbscrews, the boot was tightened until the foot was either dislocated, broken, or the ankle severely compressed. This particular torture could only be used once since it was maiming. Remember, the victim had to appear in court after the confession, under the question, was obtained.

Less often, the English used the strappado--looks like two hoops, but the victim was doubled over into the device, with the hoops being drawn tighter. Generally, the victim was left horribly contorted in this device for a period of time as gravity and lack of movement took their toll. Most victims fainted from the pain and numbness this torture caused. It could take a victim two days to finally regain feeling and movement after being placed in the strappado. This device left no marks.

Pincers, look like tongs for removing nails from horseshoes, could be heated or used cold on the victim's bare skin; face, neck, hands, wrists, and sometimes forearms excepted--the victim had to appear in court. As one might expect, pincers, literally, a pinching device, raised a very tender, red welt and, if heated, a third degree burn. This torture was the first of the life-threatening tortures and was closely supervised so the victim was not killed.

The rack was available and this deviced had the victim lying on his back on what look liked a bedstead without the mattress and a winch at one end. Ropes were looped on the victim's wrists and ankles. The crank was turned was turned a quarter to a full crank--at first, to cause general aching in the limbs. If the victim did not comply, the limbs were pulled until the arms were dislocated from the shoulder sockets as were legs from the hip sockets. A victim of this torture could take several days to revive.

If the warden was really trying to prove his point on the victim, he might use one torture that was common to the battlefield which was the use of a heated metal rod. The victim's trousers and drawers were lowered, he was bent over a table or sawhorse, and the metal rod applied against the victim's anus. This torture was meant to humilate, disorient, cause intense discomfort, and a near immediate response to the question. This torture was considered extreme and could only be used once because it could put the victim into shock and potentially kill.

All the while, the victim was given only bread and water since it was thought that refusing sustenance was inhuman.

Very clearly, Guy Fawkes was put to the question; tortured, first by beating, then by thumbscrews. The boot was probably not employed because he jumped to his death. He was probably placed in the strappado and then racked. His signature on the confession of 9 November has a barely readable signature.