Chinese water torture
The Chinese water torture is a process which is said that the torture was likely of people. In this method, the victim has to stay handcuffed under cold dripping water, which is said to cause agony. The effectiveness of this method has not been proven. The Chinese water torture is used in fictional literature, e.g. B. Thematized by the author Karl May as "drop torture" .
The process was already described by Hippolytus de Marsiliis (1450–1529). The name of the term “ Chinese water torture ” would be at least in English the performance “ Chinese Water Torture Cell ” by the escape artist Harry Houdini , in which he was repeatedly tied up and locked upside down in a water-filled glass tank.
In the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , an exhibit of an apparatus for Chinese water torture can be viewed, which was set up following information from a former prisoner. The actual existence and use of such a device in the pre-trial detention center is doubtful.
See also
- For other types of water torture, see Schwedentrunk und Waterboarding .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl May: In den Cordilleren , 1894
- ↑ straightdope.com
- ↑ Peter Erler: "Torture in the MGB prison Berlin-Hohenschönhausen". Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, 2003.
- ↑ Peter Erler: “The remand prison of the Soviet State Security Service in Hohenschönhausen 1947–1951. A historical digression ”. In: Germany Archive 2005, p. 257