We don't normally take prisoners, but when we do...

The following account comes from the infamous mercenary Siegfried "Kongo-Müller" Müller, who had been deployed in the Congo in the 1960s: >That is normal. You interrogate someone, and when you interrogate, you have to punch the subject, else he won't tell right, and once he has told, as he is rebel, and as rebels are outside the law, he gets killed. That is quite normal. We normally don't take prisoners, but when we do, we cut them down one piece at a time, first the right leg, then the left leg, ahahaha! Of course we've been kidding, just to scare the bejeezus out of them as we sharpened our blades. --- **Source:** Der Lachende Mann: Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man: Confessions of a Murderer). DEFA, German Democratic Republic, 1966. --- **Further Reading:** - [1960s Congo Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis) - [Siegfried "Kongo-Müller" Müller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_M%C3%BCller_(mercenary)) - [The Laughing Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_lachende_Mann_%E2%80%93_Bekenntnisse_eines_M%C3%B6rders)