00:00Did you know the most effective interrogator in World War II never once raised his voice?
00:04His name was Han Scharf, a Luftwaffe officer tasked with breaking, captured American fighter pilots.
00:10And he never touched a single one of them.
00:13No threats. No sleep deprivation. No pain.
00:17Instead, he took them for walks in the woods.
00:19He shared meals with them. He laughed with them.
00:22He already seemed to know everything, so pilots filled in the gaps without thinking.
00:27That was the trick.
00:28Scharf would state something almost correct, then go quiet.
00:31The pilot would instinctively correct him.
00:34And just like that, the secret was out.
00:36Pilots left his sessions feeling like they'd made a friend.
00:39They had no idea they'd told him everything.
00:41His methods were so precise, so psychologically clean,
00:45that after the war, the United States Air Force flew him over and asked him to teach their own interrogators.
00:50The man who extracted secrets from American soldiers became the man who trained them.
00:54The most dangerous interrogator in history never needed you to be afraid.
00:59He just needed you to feel safe.
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