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Other Losses: An Investigation into the mass deaths of German prisoners at the hands of the French and Americans after World War II
Other Losses: An Investigation into the mass deaths of German prisoners at the hands of the French and Americans after World War II
BACQUE, James
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See also Bacque’s "Crimes and Mercies" (1997)
"In the U.S. Army prison camps of Germany and France at the end of World War II, almost four million German soldiers were held prisoner outdoors, in unsheltered barbed-wire enclosures, with little or no food and water, for months on end. At least 750,000 died of malnutrition and disease.
The French Army, which took some 740,000 prisoners from the Americans to use as reparations labour, starved and mistreated them so appallingly that over 250,000 died.
Most were soldiers of the Wehrmacht who surrendered in May 1945, but scores of thousands were women, children and old men. Most of these deaths were listed simply as Other Losses or Perdu Pour Raison Diverses. ..."
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Year:
1990
Publisher:
Macdonald & Co
Language:
English
Pages:
287
ISBN 13:
0-356-19136-2
ISBN:
0-356-19136-2
Your tags:
Winston Churchill, concentration camps, DEF-Disarmed Enemy Forces, Ilya Ehrenburg, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Geneva Convention, genocide, Victor Gollancz, ICRC, E.D. Morel, Morgenthau Plan, Louis Nizer, George S. Patton, prisoners of war, Red Cross, Rheinberg, F.D. Roosevelt, John Sack, Josef Stalin, Terrible Swedish Jew, White War 2
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