People have been through this before:
It is inconceivable that the Brits did not torture their captives when the Brits were victorious and teh captives beaten, by beating them, making htem watch cricket and so on
IN fact they/we didnt - not even cricket
In fact from World War i, the Brits learnt v fast - although the French didnt that beating people didnt make them tell the truth
The Police re-learnt this expensively and slowly, 1970-1990 in relation to terrorism. oo la la as the French might say.
Pinto - SPycatcher - wrote a book - I am oretty sure it is called spy catcher. Got a long memory, the episode where the spy said he had swum a canal particularly interested my father who HAD swum a canal - the Kiel Canal - and he was particulry critical abouthow you can do it without wetting your clothes (my father couldnt)
All this took place on Ham Common apparently. Go out there and have a look and think Blimey what did they do? Cordon off the whole of the COmon and plonk a camp there.
So in the seventies, there was another series where Capt Mainwaring Goodbody Smyth gets bad tempered with a HUn who is in disguise and is being innterrogated and gives him a smack in the mouth....to mack heem spik -sorry wrong accent
and my goodness me - up pops the Ham Secretaries' Association protesting in the Strongest Possible Terms that they were always in the room to record the interview/interrogation and none of them - she had checked the prenious evening had EVER seen a refugee manhandled.
My brother at the tim said Oh they have been paid to say that but I tended to think it was true.