I'd always thought We British Weren't Like Those Foreigners. Till I discovered what they'd done to some German prisoners after WWII.

Right. Only after WW2. There was no bowstring, no "peine forte et dure", no Little Close, no boiling, no branding, no whipping at the tail of the cart, no burning, no racking, no brank, no ducking stools, no drawing and quartering, no pillory, no stocks....