Bush and Hitler: What The 'Torture Memos' Reveal:

"In the Spring of 1941, as Nazi Germany was preparing to invade the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler issued an infamous edict which has become known as the 'Commissar Order,' to govern the conduct of German armed forces on the Eastern Front. This order provides a largely-unnoticed precedent for the 'legal' rationalizations found in a number of hitherto-secret Bush Administration legal memoranda, which have recently come to light."