Alexander Scotland
Alexander Paterson Scotland OBE (1882–1965) was a British Army officer and intelligence officer.
Scotland was noted for his work during and after World War II as commandant of the "London Cage", a MI19 prisoner of war facility that was subject to frequent allegations of torture.
Read more about Alexander Scotland: Early Life and Career, World War I, World War II and The 'cages', War Crimes Investigations, Torture Allegations, Later Years
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“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)