by Richard K. Mariani
The book “Gruesome Harvest: The Allied Attempt to Exterminate Germany after 1945,” should be on the mandatory highschool and college reading list for history and sociology.
It is one of the few books that are available in English that address
the murder of millions of non-combatant German civilians and German
prisoners of war from 1944 to 1950 as a matter of deliberate allied
policy not inefficient logistics as it is most often presented in school
text books.
It is important because this book was written as it was still happening
and includes comments from eye witnesses in the same time period. The
book is not politically correct and shocked me because it speaks in a such a predudicial fashion about persons of the black race.
The U.S. Death Camps of WWII: Confessions of a Prison Guard
That however in this point makes it useful to
sociologist and historians because it correctly reflects widely held
opinion at the time within U.S. society.
As to the correct observation that
allied policy was to reduce the German population through, murder in
multiple forms, slave labor, and starvation, and destroy the fabric of
the society through mass rape of the female population, other authors
are critized for saying the same thing but only decades later.
Fact is there is a great effort to keep this information from the public
because it shows that the victors of WWII incorporated not only
military strategy and tactics but also the NAZI ideology of racial
hatred and a policy of extermination and discrimination for one people.
Four million persons perished because of the ethnic cleansing carried
out by, Russians, Poles, Czechs, and Serbs according to the former
German Prime Minister Konrad Adenauer,
Five million Germans starved to death in occupied Germany according to estimates by the Canadian James Bacque, and 2 million German Soldiers died in allied captivity often while performing slave labor in Auschwitz like – and worse – conditions.
General Eisenhower prohibited the German Public from sharing their own
meager rations with detained German soldiers on pain of death. Hence
from 1944 until 1948 a U.S. and Russian Holocaust for the Germans was on
going.
For more information on this topic see books by the following authors:
- James Bacque (Other Losses) (Crimes and Mercies),
- Alfred M. de Zayas (Die Wehrmacht-Untersuch ungstelle) and (The Nemisis of Potsdam),
- Guido Knopp (Die Gefangenen),
- Erich Kern and Karl Balzer (Allierte Verbrechen and Deutschen).
- A similarly important historical document is the book titled (Alliierte Kriegsverbrechen) which translates to “Allied War Crimes”.
It is a collection of historical information of eyewitness experiences
of hundreds of Allied war crimes. This information was written down in
1946 by German Soldiers held prisoner in Camp 91 in Darmstadt by U.S.
forces.
Lawyers for the defense hoped to bring some of this information as
evidence and perhaps for mitigation to the Nüremberg Tribunal but the it
was not permitted. In fact the Commander of Camp 91 attempted to
collect and destroy all copies of this book.
That is why it is important that as many people read the aforementioned
books as possible. They need to be translated into English and widely
read so that the fairy tale of WWII as the last “Good War” can finally
be put to rest.