The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced
interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation"
or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been
concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no
marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were
experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court.
I for one could not support the use of these techniques, can you?
