I searched "interrogation" hoping to find an hours long video between suspect and detective. Instead I got something way more historical, interesting, and fascinating

Cannot really speak for the Japanese part, but I have to admit I was impressed by the Italian part. The interrogator speaks good and understandable Italian, although it is clear from his pronunciation that he is an English native speaker. The actor impersonating the Italian POW on the other hand has to be a native. He speaks clearly, as a trained Italian actor of those days would have, with no interference from dialects, which were still dominant back then in Italy. The script for both the interrogator and the POW is also quite interesting, it looks as if it was taken straight from an Italian movie of the 1930s, in stylish standard Italian; the courtesy form (which is something that does not exist in English but is common elswhere, as in German Sie opposed to du) the two use is also the 'voi' form, which would have been widespread in the 1940s as it was pushed by Fascism who preferred it over the 'lei' form, which eventually won again and is mostly used nowdays. That's impressively well made.

"The enemy threatens violence, but doesn't dare carry it out" Japanese: "Hmm? Were you talking about me?"

The German speaking interrogator has an excellent grasp on German grammar, but his pronunciation is clearly non native German.

The guy interrogating the airman from Bavaria has an amazing grasp of the German language. I daresay better than many natives nowadays. He actually sounds more standard than the Bavarian he's interrogating.

" Japanese, German or Italian, all are human underneath."

Thankyou for posting. It’s really kool to see the interrogation strategy and the actors right make you feel for them!

If you want an expert understanding of interrogating enemy airman you should read "The Interrogator" by Toliver. It was based on German interrogation of U.S. Airman. The techniques were so good they were adopted by every intelligence agency after WW2.

Wow! There are a lot of familiar Hollywood actors in this training film. For example at 16:38 you will see a very young Peter van Eyck playing the German Luftwaffe officer. Later in his acting career he will once again be cast to play a German officer in the Hollywood war films The Longest Day and Bridge at Remagen. The actor who is playing the interrogator is Hollywood character actor Roman Bohnen. You will recognize him in the Oscar winning film The Best Years of Our Lives where he plays the role of Fred Derry's (Dana Andrews) father who lives down by the railroad tracks. So interesting to see him speaking German in this film.

Germans: Exploit their sense of superiority. Italians: Exploit their disdain for Germans and inferiority complex. Japanese: Show them their beliefs about Americans eating the prisoners were wrong. Actually pretty clever.

What A Great Piece Of History!

First-class and fascinating.

The acting in this film was very good, especially the Japanese POW.

The german prisoner in reality is famous actor.

Very good, interesting movie with this clever tricks.

You can't threaten prisoners in an interrogation, and yet it is described here as a reliable and frequently used technique. When did this become illegal? Was it illegal at this time and still encouraged?

wow... thats was a fascinating movie

These interrogation techniques, and not force, is how the man who interrogated Saddam Hussein got his answers, in accompaniment with strict environment control.

I Watched ,That's the best way of Interrogations.

And the great Peter van Eyck acting as the downed German Pilot !!!! What a candy!!!!!

This is Military Intelligence Training Footage from Camp Ritchie, MD. Otherwise known as Ritchie Boys.

Well what else should the prisoner do, if you've been captured by the English or American Army you're put so far in the rear there's no hope of effective escape n the best you can do is tell them what they want, get something to eat and sleep out the rest of the war. Besides there were underground units in every Axis county, nothing like that in England or America

A USA MILITARY MAN IS CONVINCED HIS HOSPITAL IS STAFFED BY THE ENEMY...THEY LET HIM CALL HIS MOTHER TO ASSURE HIM HE IS SAFELY BEING CARED FOR BY FELLOW americans...his mother tells him everyting is ok to which he answers...😢😢" oh no mom...they got you too!"

11.59 left man said just new heinkel ( without 177).

I have a question 4:43 , why such an emphasis on the ‘You mean his wife can remarry??’ Is this some kind of ‘morality drag’?

The German lieutenant became a well known actor.

I wonder how good the POWs were at winding up the interrogators. If I were a POW, I would have been correcting their German, Italian or Japanese pronunciation, throwing in some obscure or slang words that a non-native or temporary immigrant person wouldn't know, using easily confusable terms, speaking rapidly or mumbling, and generally letting them know they weren't as fluent in my language as they thought. Then again, maybe not.

Oberleutnant apparently escaped and gets promoted to lt/col. Ocker in "The Longest Day" .AKA Peter Van Eyck !.

Wartime Interrogation:…..the psychology of warfare!

If I'd have been around in WWII I think that I might have ended up interrogating people. Might have even been assigned to, as well.

What were they fighting about?

Awesome

Do you left at one important quality of an interrogator in addition to the four qualities there’s one more and that one more is:………. PATIENCE!!!!

How could he have flew from trondheim in norway to france that fast anyways like you know its a lie

I want to interrogate some bosche! America must secure democracy in the world

Yeah right! So they never beat and torture starve and kill enemy prisoners!

How'd they find weebs in 1943 anyway?

God they were bright! 2003 interrogation: "Let's hit em!" "And hurt em!" "That'll get us info we want!" "Lyke mie Dadda sayze!"-George Bush...