“There were times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary crimes.”
1984– Book III, Chapter Two.

The featured photo above shows Lavrentiy Beria – head of Soviet secret police – whom Stalin introduced to FDR at Yalta, as “our Himmler”.