I’m currently reading Berlin at War, by Roger Moorhouse, an engaging description of life for ordinary Germans during WWII. Today I was reading Chapter 11, “The Watchers and the Watched,” about the Gestapo, when I came across this sentence: “In . . . cases where the investigating officers believed vital information was being withheld, they could employ the euphemistically titled Verschärfte Vernehmung — ‘enhanced interrogation’” (234) Yes, the Bush/Cheney administration not only adopted the techniques of torture from the Nazis, they lifted their inspirations’ euphemism for the practices as well. How very thoughtful.
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