Interrogation center
An interrogation center (also interrogation camp , Eng. Interrogation Center or I nterrogation Camp ) is a top secret from the public-held device of intelligence , be interrogated in persons for the purpose of gathering information. After an interrogation center is closed, the secret service files are destroyed as completely as possible, so that very little is later known about what happened in the interrogation center.
In contrast to the internment camp , the interrogated persons only stay for the period of the interrogation. There is therefore a high fluctuation in the interrogation centers . Furthermore, the location of the interrogation camp could change several times as required.
Occupation zones in Germany after the Second World War
Even before the end of World War II , the British secret service began setting up interrogation centers in the British occupation zone .
- Even before the end of the war, the British Counter Intelligence Corps created three interrogation camps ( Civil Interrogation Camps or Civil Interrogation Canters ), some of which followed the course of the front. Interrogation Camp No. 030 existed until May 1946, Interreogation Camp No. 031 until at least August 1946, Interrogation Camp No. 032 until at least June 1946.
- In 1945 the British military secret service established the military interrogation center OSDIC Bad nenndorf .
literature
- Heiner Wember : re-education in the camp. Internment and punishment of National Socialists in the British zone of occupation in Germany. Klartext-Verlag (Düsseldorfer Schriften zur recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia 30), Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-152-7 , pp. 54–55 and 87.