...and author, died recently at the age of 88. Among other things, Trefousse served in Army intelligence during World War II and interrogated German prisoners of war.
In addition to his fluency in German, he had a means of persuading them to reveal vital information.
“We used to tell the prisoners that we had two internment camps, one in Florida and the other in Siberia,” Professor Trefousse told the Brooklyn College alumni magazine last year. “I would hang a sign around the neck of a prisoner that said ‘Russia’ and send him out into the yard. He would ask a guard what the sign meant. Nine times out of 10 the prisoner came right back in and told us everything we wanted to know.”
I wonder if Dick Cheney ever thought of that.
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