Description
Subtitled “Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II,” this classic study by James Bacque on a subject ordinarily of interest only to a few specialists—the treatment of prisoners of war—became famous in its own, right, exciting great attention and anger from court historians.
First published in 1989 in Canada, the book received so much notoriety because it accused Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, as head of the American occupation of Germany in 1945, of deliberately starving to death German prisoners of war in staggering numbers.
Bacque charges that “the victims undoubtedly number over 800,000 and quite likely over a million. Their deaths were knowingly caused by those who had sufficient resources to keep them alive.”
Photo section of the book shows the deplorable conditions in which the German POWs were kept. While concentration camp inmates got barracks, bunks, food and heat, the Germans were kept in open-air pens in freezing weather with the only shelter being holes dug in the ground.
Third, updated edition, softcover, 6″×9″, 324 pages
