Wednesday, February 4, 2015
What Historian, Steven Ambrose (Obviously a Member of the Eisenhower Cult), Had to Say About James Bacque's Book, "Other Losses", BEFORE Either He Realized What a Powder-Keg that this Book Was OR Somebody in Power Got to His Ass
"....you have the goods on these guys, you have the quotes from those who were present and saw with their own eyes....You really have made a major historical discovery, the full impact of which neither you nor I nor anyone else can imagine."........................................................................................I also strongly suggest that the readers watch this documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbp61fOVFaE - and then challenge themselves into still maintaining that the barbarians were strictly on the Axis side.
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Bacque did pretty good to fool Ambrose, who admittedly was unfamiliar with the details of
prisoner handling at war's end.
"Official United States statistics conclude there were just over 3,000 deaths in the Rheinwiesenlager while German figures state them to be 4,537. However American academic R. J. Rummel believes the figure is around 6,000.[9] James Bacque believes the figure is up to 1,000,000" from whence came
the German figures?
"the official German inquiry into the numbers of deaths was published by the Maschke committee (named after its chairman, Erich Maschke). It had conducted detailed research of the camp histories on behalf of the Bundesministerium für Vertriebene, Flüchtlinge und Kriegsgeschädigte (English: German Federal Ministry of Displaced persons, Refugees, and War Victims)." Thus, the conclusion by practically all
historians is
"The official death rate for Germans held by the American military was among the lowest experienced by surrendered combatants during and after the war" So, IMO, we shouldn't take
the Canadian fiction writer too
seriously. BTY, I knew a Wehrmacht major (ordnance)(N Africa, Italy), who believed being
captured by US soldiers saved his life: einsatzgruppen were already
hanging combat solider who were thought to be slacking, there was no food for their troops, and the 50 cal slug in his thigh only received medical attention from
his captors. Anecdotal, not history...sort of like Bacque.
Millions of German soldiers being held for months with hardly any food or water, no sanitation facilities, and not even a tent over their heads, and we're led to believe that only 3,000 of them died (probably from the same folks that said only 18,000 died at Dresden)? Yeah, Bacque's number is probably a little high but you watch that documentary then try and tell me that this wasn't an atrocity.
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