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The Nazi doctor who experimented on gay people – and Britain helped to escape justice



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Before the saw was given its perfunctory role to slice through wood and thick material, it was used to slice through humans for torture or execution. The victim would be held upside down, allowing the blood to rush to their head, and then the torturer would slowly start slicing them between their legs. With the blood contained in the head, the victim would remain conscious throughout most of the slicing, often only passing out or dying when the saw hit their mid-section. For those women who were accused or adultery, abortion or any other crime, they were subjected to the painful torture of the breast ripper or the spider. Probably the most commonly know torture device from the Middle Ages, the rack was a wooden platform, with rollers at both ends. Used frequently during the Spanish Inquisition, the knee splitter, naturally, was used to split a victims knee.


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O f all the secrets of war, there is one that is so well kept that it exists mostly as a rumour. It is usually denied by the perpetrator and his victim. Governments, aid agencies and human rights defenders at the UN barely acknowledge its possibility. Yet every now and then someone gathers the courage to tell of it. This is just what happened on an ordinary afternoon in the office of a kind and careful counsellor in Kampala, Uganda.



Over the next year, Glazier was moved from prison to prison throughout the South until he was able to make an escape in November of His freedom was short-lived, however, as he was soon recaptured. Following the war, Glazier wrote a book recounting his experiences that became a bestseller. His experiences during the war not only brought him financial independence but imbued him with a wanderlust that inspired a plan to travel America from coast to coast on horseback. In early May , Glazier mounted his horse in Boston and headed west.