Why isn't eisenhower rheinwiesenlager more well known when studying the events of WW2?
Why isn't eisenhower rheinwiesenlager more well known when studying the events of WW2?
Thomas Kelly
Noah Adams
Did he find it ironic this was the same treatment as the Germans gave to the Russians?
Owen Edwards
>allies had no food supply
Nice meme
Evan Collins
Nazi camps were much worse.
Zachary Ward
because the allies won and this is the type of thing they would want to cover up for obvious reasons
Samuel Myers
Because they were not part of WW2 or utterly irrelevant?
Adam Thomas
V
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VICTIS
Adam Foster
Because they've done everything in their power to be portrayed as civilized heroes, during and after the war, and many people still think they were. A very efficient propaganda.
William Russell
Which camps?
Easton Rogers
>10,000 (at absolute maximum) POWs died
REEEE WIR DINDUN NUFFIN DAS IS RAYCISS PLS HALP DEY GENOCIDING US
Samuel Brooks
Most camps.
Connor Hughes
In the countries they're relevant to, they are well known, but there's no reason to discuss them, since they got what they deserved
Zachary Cruz
fucking this, most deaths were due to just incompetence when Allies had bigger things to worry about than just some PoWs
now compare it to the German camps where they starved to death millions of soviet PoWs on purpose that the only way for them to survive was to eat fresh corpses or each other
Daniel Moore
>PoW
DEF*
Christopher Adams
Prisoners had barracks and toilets in nazi camps
>>>/leftypol/
Julian Cooper
not in the camps made specifically for Soviet pows, you fucking idiot
Julian Morales
>implying the Germans wasn't just helping Stalin to cull out cowards and traitors of the motherland
im pretty sure thats the only reason Stalin allowed them to exist as an entity
Tyler Rogers
>everyone who disagrees with me is /leftypol/
Xavier Hernandez
Wait fuck why did it post that picture fuck
Charles Evans
Lmao James Bacque.
You know how he arrived at his numbers?
He took the population of Germany in '50, and subtracts the population of Germany in '46 to arrive at the number of Germans "starved the death" by the allies.
When he saw that the '50 census in East Germany is lower than "expected", the chalked that up to the Allies running a campaign of deliberate starvation, rather than the simpler explanation that East Germans fled West so they didn't have to live in Soviet controlled East Germany.
Yea, his numbers are that retarded.
Then there's his specific insistence of laying the blame at the feet of "Anglo-Saxon militarism" and their "warlike peoples" (exact quotes BTW), meanwhile neglecting that out of the 3 occupying powers, France treated their German DEF's the worst, employing them as corvee labor and demanding even more from the British and American DEFs. One POW who was interned in the US, then given over to the French bitterly states
> "this was nothing more than slave labor ... I am even today of the opinion that the U.S. foolishly nullified its long effort to instill in us the precious seeds of democracy."
No surprise considering that James Bacque is Quebecois.
Leo Ross
because its a retarded and bullshit stormfag meme and not real history
Brody Foster
This comes from ONE (1) book by James Bacque, whos a retard who got BTFO by actual historians
>Mr. Bacque is wrong on every major charge and nearly all his minor ones. Eisenhower was not a Hitler, he did not run death camps, German prisoners did not die by the hundreds of thousands, there was a severe food shortage in 1945, there was nothing sinister or secret about the "disarmed enemy forces" designation or about the column "other losses." Mr. Bacque's "missing million" were old men and young boys in the Volkssturm (People's Militia) released without formal discharge and transfers of POWs to other allies control areas. Maj. Ruediger Overmans of the German Office of Military History in Freiburg who wrote the final volume of the official German history of the war estimated that the total death by all causes of German prisoners in American hands could not have been greater than 56,000 approximately 1% of the over 5,000,000 German POWs in Allied hands exclusive of the Soviets.
nytimes.com
There was a panel of 8 historians as well that all called the book out for its shitty made up history as well found the book to be bullshit
>Historians Gunter Bischof and Brian Loring Villa stated that a research report from the panel "soundly refuted the charges of Other Losses, especially Bacque's fanciful handling of statistics."
historynewsnetwork.org
>"Bacque misread, misinterpreted, or ignored the relevant documents and that his mortality statistics are simply impossible." -R.J. Rummell
hawaii.edu
>"That German prisoners were treated very badly in the months immediately after the war […] is beyond dispute. All in all, however, Bacque's thesis and mortality figures cannot be taken as accurate" -S.P.MacKenzie The Encyclopedia of Internment and Prisoners of War pg. 294