Iron Maiden? Excellent!!!
I was watching Modern Marvels on the History Channel last night. The episode was about torture devices throughout the ages and, as one could imagine, it was slightly gross and disturbing. Though, this one museum curator they had named Javier was pretty cute.
I think the thing that was most amusing came in the modern era, when talking about the existence of torture in the new millennium. Almost all the imagery seemed to be of Arabs in the Middle East, with a few snippets here and there of Africans. To the untrained eye, one would get the impression the show implied that it was only in these "far off" places that torture techniques were still in use. The only implication that was slightly made towards the West was in the percentage of nations which practice torture: Eighty.
The winners truly do write the history (channel) don't they. Showing some waterboarding techniques would have been very topical. Or some naked Muslims on top of each other with a few U.S. soldiers giving the thumbs up in the background.
They did make sure to show the evil Saddam Hussein as well as Nazis. Because, well, everyone hates those guys.
I did find may way out to the wiki page on Nazi Human Experimentation. There is an eerie picture of two of these "doctors" doing hypothermia testing on some poor sonofabitch. I can't tell in the pic if the guy is dead or literally frozen and figuratively frozen in terror.
It's chilling, no pun intended, how a human being could look at another human being but not see them as such. Only as a subject or an animal. Did any of them at any time every question the morality of what they were doing?
Of course not! They were Nazis!
I think the thing that was most amusing came in the modern era, when talking about the existence of torture in the new millennium. Almost all the imagery seemed to be of Arabs in the Middle East, with a few snippets here and there of Africans. To the untrained eye, one would get the impression the show implied that it was only in these "far off" places that torture techniques were still in use. The only implication that was slightly made towards the West was in the percentage of nations which practice torture: Eighty.
The winners truly do write the history (channel) don't they. Showing some waterboarding techniques would have been very topical. Or some naked Muslims on top of each other with a few U.S. soldiers giving the thumbs up in the background.
They did make sure to show the evil Saddam Hussein as well as Nazis. Because, well, everyone hates those guys.
I did find may way out to the wiki page on Nazi Human Experimentation. There is an eerie picture of two of these "doctors" doing hypothermia testing on some poor sonofabitch. I can't tell in the pic if the guy is dead or literally frozen and figuratively frozen in terror.
It's chilling, no pun intended, how a human being could look at another human being but not see them as such. Only as a subject or an animal. Did any of them at any time every question the morality of what they were doing?
Of course not! They were Nazis!