Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950
More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II—one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these deaths occurred at all is still being denied by Western governments.\ At the same time, Herbert...
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Soon after their victory in 1945, the Allies of World War Two began to commit horrific war crimes against the defeated Germans. Yet at the same time they set up the greatest famine relief initiative in the history of the world. Of all the peoples in the world, only the Germans were victimized, only the Germans were excluded at first, from these mercies. The relief organized by former president of the United States Herbert Hoover and by Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King saved the lives of 800 million people around the world, including, finally, many Germans who had been dying of starvation forced on them by the Allies, before the USA and Canada stepped in.The starvation policy of the Allies killed one and a half million German prisoners of war in American, Russian and French prison camps in peacetime, plus many millions more civilians in Germany. How these extraordinary and contradictory events occurred at the same time is the story of this book. Never before had such vengeance been known. Never before had such mercy been shown. Now in its second revised edition, this book was first published in Canada and the UK in 1997, where it was an immediate best-seller. It succeeded Bacque's 1989 book, Other Losses, also an international best-seller. Canadian author James Bacque has had his works of fiction, biography and history published in thirteen countries and in several different languages. His historical work has been the subject of numerous TV documentaries. Bacque's controversial discoveries have been praised by numerous historians and writers, including US Army official historian Col. Dr Ernest F. Fisher Julian Barnes, Prof. Richard Overy, Prof. Emeritus Peter Russell, DrAnthony. B. Mille, Dr Dwight Murphey, Nikolai Tolstoy and Dr Alfred de Zayas. James Bacque's work has caused a sensation among thousands of German survivors of these war crimes whose stories have been suppressed for over half a century.
List of Illustrations viiPreface xiForeword Dr Alfred de Zayas xviIntroduction xxiiiA Piratical State 1The Beginning of Wisdom 17'From There No Prisoner Returned' 40A Holiday in Hell 62And the Churches Flew Black Flags 86Death and Transfiguration 107The Victory of the Merciful 135History and Forgetting 172Appendices 185Notes 212Select Bibliography 254Index 261
