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The way that the facts of a story are slowly erased over time and the glory and bravery of men is glorified under false pretenses seems to be a reoccurring theme in history. An American History course I took, sparked my interest in America's role in World War Two, as the two textbooks I had, contained very different information. The American pressed one, stated nothing horrible of her motherland and left out what some might consider key facts towards the battles fought, or trades that took place. The Canadian pressed one, although carrying more details of these events and on goings, was just as unhelpful. The stories from veterans we watched on A&E and the text in the books wasn't lining up.
I asked my parents, being the inquisitive youngster I was. They told me things that I at first didn't believe. I mean, if such allegations were remotely factual, there would need to be facts first. So I shrugged it off until I took more history courses to fill my gaping time table. This time around, I asked questions. I wanted answers, I was sent off in so many directions. I found this book, titled "Other Losses" by James Bacque.
It is the story of a man, who most of you know affectionately as "Ike". Dwight David Eisenhower, A man, who some how passed through the ranks of the army to come out on top, surpassing many who he was less qualified than. He is the one, ladies and gentlemen, who managed to drag out the war an extra two years. Britain had a plan, in 1943 that would have ended the war with a conquest for Germany. However, I am not here to talk solely of the war, there is much too much to fit all of that into an article.
I instead, am writing about after the war ended. Partially, while the war was being waged.
In 1945, during the post-World War II period, American foreign policy was largely in the hands of a small group of very powerful Zionists based in Washington, D.C. This secret, invisible government, which has controlled America for over fifty years, was headed then by Sen. Herbert Lehman, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau. They drew up the beginnings for a plan, which the enthusiastic Eisenhower carried out in Europe, which was the most monstrous policy of hate and vengeance known in civilized history. This policy is still in operation today, fifty years later, where media pundits, twisting, exaggerating, and even manufacturing historical claims, have hounded, harassed, and had arrested 70 and 80-year old European war veterans for alleged "war crimes", which were supposed to have taken place over fifty years ago.
The National Archives in Washington contains an official document called the Weekly Prisoner of War and Disarmed Enemy Forces Report for the week ending Sept. 8, 1945. It shows that 1,056,482 German prisoners were then being held by the U.S. Army in the European theater, of whom 692,895 were still classified as POWs (Prisoners of War) and the other 363,587 as DEFs (Disarmed Enemy Forces). A German soldier designated DEF had no right to any food, shelter, or water in fact, to anything. Quite often he did not receive even the basic necessities of life and died within days.
Eisenhower also had a disregard for his own kind. He hated Germans SO much that in Germany (a sentiment he made clear on many occasions), American officers and servicemen were court marshaled, on Eisenhower's orders, for sharing their rations with the starving Germans. You know how these enemy children played on the minds of decent Americans who knew what their government was doing was wrong. Enemy children have never been enemies, to big hearted Americans, because, the children are the innocent right? But, did they do anything about it? No. The media took hold and spun it into something else, sweeping it under the rug.
In spite of everything which has been written about Eisenhower which makes him out to be a hero, there seems little question that Dwight Eisenhower meets all the qualifications of a certified war criminal. Had Germany won, he would have been court marshaled for his crimes against humanity.
The 2,000,000 Germans who surrendered to the Canadian and British armies, were places in POW camps. They were brought back to health and either sent home or to France, to help reconstruction efforts. While German soldiers from the British and Canadian zones were quickly regaining strength and were helping rebuild Europe, Germans taken by the Americans were dying by the hundreds of thousands. Emaciated figures in diarrhea smeared clothing, huddling pitifully in watery holes with perhaps a scrap of cardboard over their heads and a rotten potato for supper. At times many of them were reduced to drinking urine and eating grass.
Bacque's careful calculations forced him to conclude:
"Eisenhower had deplored the German's useless defense of the Reich in the last months of the war because of the waste of life. At least ten times as many Germans - undoubtedly 800,000, almost certainly 900,000, and quite possibly a million died in the French and American camps as were killed in all the combat on the Western front in northwest Europe from America's entry into the war in December 1941, through April 1945."
Bacque was ably assisted in his research by Col. Ernest F. Fisher, a senior historian for the U.S. Army, as well as by other highly placed members of the American military. One of them, Colonel Philip S. Lauben, Chief of the German Affairs branch of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force), stated that, in late 1945, "the Vosges (northeast France) was just one big death camp (for Germans)."
-BP
Author's Note: Sources:
"Other Losses" - James Bacque (Fenn publishing copyright 1999 Bolton, Ontario)
American History notes from grade eleven and twevle taught under three texts (two Canadian and one American)
Canadian history notes from grade eleven, twelve and OAC taught under several texts (all Canadian)
Talking to my grandparents who fought for the British.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager (much different information)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II (death rates of POWs in Allied camps)
http://library.thinkquest.org/10927/sumww2.htm (summary of the battles of WW2 from 1937-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes#United_States_perpetrated_crimes (US Crimes)
http://www.amazon.com/Other-Losses-James-Bacque/dp/1551681919 (the book, currently out of stock)
http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/us_war_crimes/Eisenhowers_death_camps.htm
(prison guard's story . . . may or may not be factual).
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