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Eisenhower and the German POWs :

0807117587

9780807117583

Eisenhower and the German POWs :

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facts against falsehood /

edited by Günter Bischof and Stephen E. Ambrose.

Baton Rouge :

Louisiana State University Press,

©1992.

xvii, 258 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

Eisenhower Center studies on war and peace

Papers presented at a symposium held Nov. 1990 at the Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.

Eisenhower and the Germans / Stephen E. Ambrose -- The diplomatic and political context of the POW camps tragedy / Brian Loring Villa -- A question of numbers / Albert E. Cowdrey -- Food shortages in Germany and Europe, 1945-1948 / James F. Tent -- German historiography, the war losses, and the prisoners of war / Rüdiger Overmans -- Some reflections on the Maschke Commission / Rolf Steininger -- A British variety of pseudohistory / Thomas M. Barker -- Bacqaue and historical evidence / Günter Bischof.

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In 1989, a Canadian publisher released a book that has since become the subject of enormous international controversy. James Bacque's Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners of War at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II asserts that General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as head of the American occupation of Germany in 1945, deliberately starved to death German prisoners of war in staggering numbers. Bacque charges that quite likely up to a million prisoners died, their deaths knowingly caused by army officers who had sufficient resources to keep them alive. In 1990, the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans sponsored an international conference to examine Bacque's allegations. Participants included the six historians whose essays, along with those of Stephen E. Ambrose and Gunter Bischof, make up this volume, which systematically dismantles Bacque's argument. Eisenhower and the German POWs demonstrates numerous glaring errors in Bacque's research and conclusions. The authors show that Bacque misinterpreted documents accounting for the disposition of German POWs; neglected important evidence to the contrary of his theories; failed to take account of the acute disruption of Europe's economy and distribution networks; and ignored the competing needs of millions of refugees, displaced persons, and hungry civilians, as well as the deployment of Allied resources to the Pacific, where the war continued unabated. In addition to exposing Bacque's flawed methodology and illogical conclusions, these essays offer an extremely detailed and broad-ranging examination of European conditions immediately after the cessation of hostilities and of the difficult business of administering the newborn peace and the millions of newly disarmed military personnel.

Bacque, James,1929-Other losses

Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David),1890-1969

Bacque, James, 1929-Other losses

Bacque, James., Other losses.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David),1890-1969.

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1890-1969

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Bitterfeld

Prisoners of war-- Germany-- History-- 20th century, Congresses.

World War, 1939-1945-- Prisoners and prisons, American, Congresses.

Eisenhower Center (Universtiy of New Orleans)

Deutscher Kriegsgefangener

Prisoners of war.

Germany.

USA.

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Ambrose, Stephen E.

Bischof, Günter,1953-

Eisenhower Center (University of New Orleans)

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