“‘I was interrogated for the second time at Cand in the main
German prison, where I remained 31 days. There I was locked up
for 2 or 3 hours in a sort of wooden coffin where one could
breathe only through three holes in the top.’”
Further, the same, document:
“M. Rémy, residing at Armentières, states: ‘Arrested 2 May 1944
at Armentières, I arrived at the Gestapo, 18 Rue François Debatz
at La Madelaine about 3 o’clock the same day. I was subjected to
interrogation on two different occasions. The first lasted for
about an hour. I had to lie on my stomach and was given about
120 lashes. The second interrogation lasted a little longer. I
was lashed again, lying on my stomach. As I would not talk, they
stripped me and put me in the bath tub. The 5th of May I was
subjected to a new interrogation at Loos. That day they hung me
up by my feet and rained blows all over my body. As I refused to
speak, they untied me and put me again on my stomach. When pain
made me cry out, they kicked me in the face with their boots. As
a result I lost 17 lower teeth . . . .’”
The names of two of the torturers follow, but are of no concern to us
here. We are merely trying to show that the torturers everywhere used
the same methods. This could have been done only in execution of orders
given by their chiefs.