The Starving for Information

According to James Bacque's disturbing book, "Crimes and Mercies", Eisenhower eventually issued a letter (and sent by "urgent courier") to the top officials of the German provinces which instructed them that it was now a crime punishable by shooting (and, yes, he documents a number of cases of women being shot just for trying to feed the German POWs) for citizens to assemble food supplies in order to deliver them to German POWs. This is a war crime, folks, and the fact that OUR government has withheld this information from the public for close to 60 years is inexcusable...................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, there WAS food available in that the good citizens from Canada, the United States, and Australia had sent copious amounts of it to Germany (which the Red Cross was more than willing to hand it out) and it was only because of the Americans that it wasn't given out (England, surprisingly and to their credit, did not starve their prisoners).