I can quantify where there is evidence of torture or coercion and where there is not. There is none for all the SS camp staff trials in West and Unified Germany, which makes up the majority of the staff and trials.
None for ALL the SS camp Staff? You originally said there was NO ONE tortured, but you seem to be backtracking from your original statement?
Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz was tortured quite brutally, and especially around giving a testimony and giving admitted fake numbers.
Josef Kramer, Commandant of Bergen-Belsen was also tortured and the British did prolonged questioning under intimidating conditions, including sleep deprivation and threats.
"He was arrested by soldiers who had just seen the horrors of Belsen, and it is not surprising that his treatment was not gentle" (Phillips, The Belsen Trial, p. 156).
Otto Moll, Auschwitz Crematoria Overseer is someone you'd like, he is the one who gave us detailed accounts of mass executions and cremations... if only it wasn't done under torture... Defense witnesses and some post-trial accounts suggest that Moll was subjected to physical abuse, including beatings, by American interrogators eager to secure incriminating testimony against higher-ranking SS officials.
One defense witness, SS-Unterscharführer Hans Koch (another Auschwitz defendant), testified on November 27, 1945, about the general treatment of SS prisoners by American interrogators. Koch stated:
"We were taken to a room, and the Americans shouted at us. Some of us were hit if we didn’t answer quickly. They wanted us to say things about the others, and I saw Moll after one session—he looked bad, like he’d been roughed up." (Transcript summary, cited in The Dachau Trials: A Summary, U.S. Army Historical Division, 1947, p. 87).
The defense of Moll literally argued it was obtained under duress. U.S. defense attorney Lt. Col. Douglas Bates, who represented multiple defendants, including Moll, made a general statement in his closing argument about interrogation tactics:
"The statements of these men were taken under conditions that cast doubt on their voluntariness. They were held in isolation, questioned for hours, and some reported physical handling by interrogators eager to build a case against the SS leadership." (Trial of Martin Gottfried Weiss et al., Closing Arguments, December 10, 1945, p. 312)
Friedrich Hartjenstein, Commandant of Auschwitz and Natzweiler-Struthof, during his interrogations, Hartjenstein faced intense pressure to confess to specific crimes, including the use of gas chambers at Natzweiler. French authorities, who took custody of him later, documented complaints from Hartjenstein that he had been mistreated by Allied forces, including threats to his family’s safety if he did not comply.
"The accused was questioned repeatedly over days, with little rest, and under the threat of severe consequences if he did not provide the details the interrogators demanded. He was told to confirm the gassing narrative, whether true in its entirety or not." (WO 235/162, June 1, 1946, p. 47).
"I [Hartjenstein] was mistreated by the Allies after my arrest. They threatened me and my family if I did not say what they wanted about the camp. I was forced to speak of things I did not do." (French Military Archives, SHD 11 P 123, translated summary).
Kurt Franz, Deputy Commandant of Treblinka was tried in the Treblinka Trials and sentenced to life imprisonment. While his trial occurred much later and under civilian German jurisdiction, Franz claimed during interrogations that earlier statements he made to Allied forces in 1945 were coerced. After his initial capture by American troops, Franz alleged he was subjected to beatings and starvation to force admissions about Treblinka’s operations.
"When the Americans caught me in ’45, they beat me and kept me without food for days. I said things then that they wanted to hear, but I don’t stand by them now—they weren’t true." (Quoted in The Treblinka Trials, ed. Adalbert Rückerl, 1977, p. 89, translated from German).
During the Treblinka Trial, Franz’s defense counsel, Alfred Schönebeck, raised the issue of his 1945 treatment to challenge the prosecution’s use of earlier statements. In a session on February 15, 1965, Schönebeck argued:
"My client was subjected to harsh conditions by American interrogators after his arrest in 1945. He claims he was struck repeatedly and denied food, forcing him to make statements under duress. These should not be admissible here." (Trial Transcript, Düsseldorf, 8 Ks 2/64, p. 412).
Josef Oberhauser was an SS-Unterscharführer at Belzec "extermination" camp. Oberhauser claimed during pretrial interrogations that his 1945 statements to U.S. forces were coerced. In a 1963 deposition, he told investigators:
"The Americans hit me and kept me in a cell with no food for two days until I talked about Belzec. I said what they wanted because I was afraid." (Cited in The Belzec Trial, Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Vol. 19, 1978, p. 123, translated from German).
Wilhelm Boger was an SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz and was tried in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, In a hearing on March 10, 1963, Boger claimed:
"The Americans beat me senseless in ’45—broke my jaw and starved me for days. I wrote that confession to stop the pain, not because it was true." (Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Transcripts, Hessian State Archives, 4 Ks 2/63, Vol. 23, p. 187).
Oskar Gröning was an SS-Unterscharführer at Auschwitz, was convicted in 2015 in Lüneburg as an accessory to 300,000 murders. In a 2005 interview with Der Spiegel (republished during the trial), he recalled:
"The British kicked me around and threatened to hang me if I didn’t talk about the camp. I said what I knew to avoid worse." (Der Spiegel, January 15, 2005, p. 56).
Karl Frenzel was at the Sobibor Trial and was an SS-Oberscharführer at Sobibor, he told West German investigators:
"The Americans beat me with a rifle butt and withheld food until I signed a paper about Sobibor. I was too weak to resist." (Cited in Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp, Jules Schelvis, 2007, p. 234).
You have little evidence for your beliefs and for your ability to quantify, but given statements from the British and Americans themselves, torture was much more common than YOU believe.
Paperclip Conspiracy by Tom Bower (1987), which cites CIC veteran John Hobbins:
"We weren’t gentle with the SS boys—slaps, kicks, no sleep, little food. If they were from a death camp, we made sure they talked, one way or another." (Bower, p. 67).
The examples above are documented cases of coercion, beatings, starvation, and threats, primarily from initial Allied interrogations (1945–1947). Your overlooking, and just blatantly false statement that "There is none for all the SS camp staff trials in West" and "There is no evidence of torture or coercion, of the SS death camp staff put on trial in West and later unified Germany" is such an insane statement to make.
