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It's a pathetic attempt to trivialize the Holocaust.
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Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation 1944-1950
by James Bacque 2003
More than nine million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after the Second World War - one quarter of the country was annexed, and about fifteen million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Western governments continue to conceal and deny these deaths. At the same time, Herbert Hoover and Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King created the largest charity in history, a food-aid program that saved an estimated 800 million lives during three years of global struggle against post-Second World War famine - a program the German people were initially excluded from as a matter of official Allied policy. Revised and updated for this new edition, "Crimes and Mercies" was first published by Little, Brown in the UK in 1997, becoming an immediate best seller.
A Review of James Bacque's "Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation 1944-1950" by Eric Blair According to Bacque, given the extraordinarily harsh conditions imposed upon them by the Allies (i.e., the British, French, Soviets, and Americans), at least 9.3 million and possibly as many as 13.7 million Germans, had, by 1950, needlessly died as a result.
-------------------TOTALS OF DEATHS
--------------------------------Minimum ----------Maximum
Expellees (1945-50) ----2,100,000 ---------6,000,000
Prisoners (1941-50)-----1,500,000----------2,000,000
Residents (1946-50)-----5,700,000---------5,700,000
----------------------------_________---------__________
Totals----------------------9,300,000 ---------13,700,000
"Expellees" refers to the 16,000,000 ethnic Germans who were driven from their ancestral homelands in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere in Europe, at war's end.
These included mostly women and children and elderly men who, with a few belongings in hand and running the gauntlet of deep, local animosity, set out upon the open road toward the rump state of Germany.
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WWII B-24 VE "Trolley Missions", Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTEs) for German POWs at Remagen (Deutsch Kriegsgefangenen)
This photo was taken by Co-pilot James Beadling on May 10, 1945 from the B-24 Liberator Wazzle Dazzle during the Victory in Europe B-24 Fly over of the target areas.
"Prisoners of War in the "Golden Mile"
Following the unexpected crossing of the river Rhine by American troops in Remagen on 7 March 1945 and the long prepared Rhine crossing near Wesel on 23 March 1945 the whole Ruhr area was surrounded including more than 300,000 German soldiers. The number of German prisoners of war was increased tremendously by the advance of Allied Troops.
To the west of the Rhine, Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTEs) housing 50,000 each were created near Rheinberg, Remagen and Bad Kreuznach. After a short time, these proved to be too small. More enclosures were created, 17 in all.
According to American reports at the end of April, more than 169,036 prisoners of war were in the PWTE Remagen. Additionally the nearby enclosure was created at Sinzig. On 8 May Sinzig housed 118,563 POWs and Remagen 134,029 POWs.
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Rheinwiesenlager War crimes Deaths of POWs from starvation and exposure no prosecutions. The Rheinwiesenlager (Rhine meadow camps) were transit camps for millions of German POWs after World War II; there were potentially tens of thousands of deaths from starvation and exposure. Estimates range from just over 3,000 to 71,000.
Source; U.S. (and French) abuse of German PoWs, 1945-1948.
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The worst US temporary enclosures were the 16 "Rheinwiesenlager" ("Rhine meadow camps"). 557,000 PoWs were held from Apr. to July 45 in the six worst of these: Bad Kreuznach-Bretzenheim, Remagen-Sinzig, Rheinberg, Heidesheim, Wickrathberg, and Büderich . The Maschke Commission would later tabulate 4,537 parish-registered deaths in these 6 worst RWLs, 774 from the others. They thought the actual death toll might be twice this, but were skeptical of an eyewitness claim of 32,000 deaths.
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June, 1945 US POW camp in Germany
"Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated 1 million German men, most of them in American camps. Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war crime."
--Col. Ernest F. Fisher, PhD Lt.
101st Airborne Division, "Senior Historian", United States Army!
Source US National Archives National Park.
I have Pages of information in this matter, this will be my last Post on this thread.
The above is supported by Richard Overy, King's College, University of London; Otto Kimminich, University of Regensburg; Dr Alfred De Zayas, author of many books on postwar German history; Prof. Dr. Peter Hoffmann, McGill University, author of the most expert books on the German resistance; Prof. J. K. Johnson, Carleton University, Ottawa; Professor Ralph Raico, University of Buffalo; Prof. Ed Peterson, University of Wisconsin; Prof Ralph Scott, University of Iowa; Prof. Pierre Van Den Berghe, University of Seattle; Prof. Dr Richard Mueller, former head, Department of English, University of Aachen; Prof. Hans Koch, University of York and many others.
Supported by Julian Barnes; Nikolai Tolstoy; John Fraser, Master of Massey College, Toronto; John Bemrose of Toronto; Robert Kroetsch, Winnipeg; and many others.
And US Army military historian Col. Dr. Ernest F. Fisher, a former Senior Historian of the US Army Center for Military History, Washington.
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