| Item title: | Japanese methods of prisoner of war interrogation |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 12/105) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS research reports |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 12/105 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 12/- |
| Item: | RR-134 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 13 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Information report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 1/6/1946 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | PRISONERS OF WAR, IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, MILITARY REGULATIONS |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) research report issued on 1 June 1946 on Japanese interrogation methods. It contains information on the time and place of interrogation, techniques of interrogation, use of torture, the types of information sought by interrogators and examples of intelligence obtained in interrogations. The report conclude by stating that the Japanese Army placed a high regard on intelligence garnered through interrogation, and techniques varied from the gentle to the very cruel. Torture was explicitly condoned and airmen tended to suffer harsher treatment, possibly because of the importance of air superiority and a desperate desire to obtain all possible information about Allied air operations. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:06:48 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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