Canadian writer Baccher 1986 went to France to visit Raoul laporte, the hero of the French resistance movement during World War II. After consulting a lot of materials and interviewing many people at that time, he accidentally discovered an amazing but little-known secret: at the end of World War II, 1 million surrendered German prisoners of war in the German prisoner of war concentration camp of the US military died of man-made hunger, disease and lack of medical care. He spent three years visiting the then allied governments (the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, etc.). ) and talk to the parties. The following facts were recorded.
By May of 1945, the number of Germans surrendering to the United States, Britain and France was roughly as follows: Montgomery's British troops were subjected to
500,000 German prisoners surrendered, and the British and Canadian allied forces surrendered 2 million people. Most of these prisoners were released after Germany surrendered.
After returning to China, 300,000 of them were sent to France as laborers to "rebuild France". America is in Europe and the north.
5.25 million people did not surrender. The treatment of German prisoners of war in the United States is different from that in Britain, France and Canada.
At that time, the commander of the Supreme Command of the European Allied Expeditionary Force was General Eisenhower, who was unwilling to cooperate with the British in dealing with German prisoners of war. because
The British deal with prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention, that is, prisoners of war cannot have basic living conditions such as food and accommodation.
As soldiers of the army that captured them, the Red Cross has freedom of communication with their families, and the Red Cross regularly visits prison camps.
Land. (Remember, during the Korean War, Chinese people's Volunteer Army basically did the above for United Nations prisoners of war.
But Eisenhower decided to do it himself. On 1945
In April, he proposed to divide German prisoners of war into two classes: 1. Hand over the prisoners of war 2。 surrender one's weapons
Defend the enemy (DEF for short). The first group of people according to Geneva
Prisoner of war convention, the second kind of person, according to Eisenhower's instructions, is still regarded as hostile armed forces, that is,
Even if they surrender, they will be killed. In fact, by August of 1945, all German prisoners of war had been sent back.
Enter the second category, which is DEF. The British rejected this proposal and the Americans began to implement it in their own prison camps.
Follow Eisenhower's instructions.
According to the materials of the International Red Cross in May 1945, the health status of captured German prisoners of war, except the wounded.
Outside, it is basically healthy. But in American prison camps, the situation deteriorated rapidly. In Gotha's American army
In the prison camp, prisoners of war are placed on the open-air loess slope, with no tent for shelter from the wind, rain and sun, and no shade.
Without a house, the strong prisoner dug a hole by hand and curled up in the hole like a vole, while the weak one did.
Lying in the open air, it is too cold at night, and a bunch of people huddle together to keep warm. Sometimes it rains heavily, and the soil in the cave
Loose and landslide, the unlucky "field mouse" was buried alive inside. This is not the main problem. The main problem is
Prisoners of war were deprived of food and water. The situation at that time was not a lack of food, but was caused by the allied forces and the International Red Cross.
According to the materials to be disclosed, the US military's grain headquarters in Europe has a large amount of grain hoarding, and the International Red Cross has100000 tons of grain.
Products are stored in Switzerland. But hunger spread in the prison camps. A German prisoner of war who was only 18 years old at that time, after the war.
Charles von Lutishaw, who later became a historian, recalled: "We lived around barbed wire.
On the very crowded open-air slopes, food is extremely scarce. One meal a day is only one tenth of that of American soldiers.
One. Many people lose weight quickly. I told an American officer that what they did was against Japan.
Geneva convention, he replied to me:' Geneva convention has nothing to do with you, you have no right.' "Another war.
Prisoner Wolfgang Yves recalled: "There were10,000 people in my prison camp, with 30 to 40 people every day.
The body was carried out of the camp. I used to carry bodies. We used to carry them out of the camp by handcart.
Take off their clothes and put them in the tin car layer by layer. "Prisoners of war don't get enough water,
Sometimes the river is near the camp, but even that kind of dirty water can't be drunk by prisoners of war.
James mason and Charles Beasley, two doctors who used to work in the American medical team in Europe, visited the prison camp in Rhine province. In 1950, they wrote: "About100000 people in rags crowded in.
Knee-deep mud, dirty, gaunt, emaciated, glassy-eyed ... "The disease soon became a German prisoner of war.
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After World War II, American troops abused and killed 1 10,000 German prisoners of war.
Spread in the camp, mainly dysentery, typhoid fever, gangrene and pneumonia. American military doctors also recorded "extreme malnutrition"
And "fatigue". Because there is no toilet in the camp, patients with dysentery and typhoid fever can still walk.
Shit in barbed wire can only be solved on the spot if you can't walk. Patients lying in the mud often cover themselves.
Shit. This undoubtedly accelerated the spread of the disease. The request of the International Red Cross to inspect the prison camps has been repeatedly rejected by the United States.
The army refused, and the life of prisoners of war "automatically disappeared", without medical care and medicine. This caused the death of a large number of prisoners of war.
The main cause of death.
From April 1945, Eisenhower defined a large number of German prisoners of war as "disarmed hostile forces" to April 1946.
1 month,1100,000 prisoners of war surrendered by Germany disappeared from American prison camps.
The number of Germans who died in the prison camp is equivalent to the entire western front and the alliance from 194 1 to 1945.
The total number of Germans killed in the war.
It was in this kind of killing that the Second World War ended. The death toll is no less than that of Japan in the atomic bomb explosion.
The number of deaths caused by the explosion.
After World War II, 500,000 Germans died in Soviet prison camps and 654.38+100,000 Germans died in American prison camps! Many German officers and men believed that the Soviets would not treat them well, so they ran from the eastern line to the western line and from the Soviet Union to the United States, rushing for the last hope. Only when I got to the Americans did I know I was wrong, even worse than the treatment in the Soviet prison camp.
The "humanitarian prison camp" in the United States once attracted a large number of Germans on the Eastern Front, and the slogan of German soldiers "Better surrender to the Americans than be captured by the Russians" was once a topic that westerners talked about.
However, Bucky's works make this myth disappear like an inflated bubble!
Ironically, the brutal Nazis were much more kind to their American brothers!
Of the more than 90,000 Americans captured by the Germans, only 1684 died. However, these incidents of German massacre of American prisoners of war have been repeatedly hyped in western historical materials.
A large number of papers have been published to affirm and question Bahce's figures, but whether the authors of these papers agree with Bahce's specific data or not, they finally have to admit the fact that Americans have treated German prisoners of war cruelly like Nazis.
The origin of prisoner abuse must start from Normandy landing, and many media are copying it these days. 1before the American invasion of western Europe on June 6, 944, the number of German prisoners of war who fell into the hands of western troops was not large. Only 135796 people were detained in the United States (excluding Japanese and Italians). However, after the Normandy landing, with the total collapse of the German east-west line, a large number of Germans were captured on the battlefield; On the other hand, because some German generals have ulterior motives and most German soldiers have illusions about the preferential treatment that the West, especially the Americans, may give them, a large number of German soldiers voluntarily surrendered to the Anglo-American Coalition forces on the western front, especially around the end of the war, and even many Germans on the eastern front crossed the front to seek western asylum. According to the daily report of the Allied Supreme Command on the number of German prisoners, from June 1944 to June 12 to May 1945, * * * 5,480,367 people fell into the hands of western troops, not including the Germans who were captured and surrendered in the Mediterranean war zone. According to figures, 7,856,600 Germans were captured by western troops, of which about 2.5 million fell into the hands of Commonwealth troops and 5.2 million fell into the hands of Americans.
Most German prisoners of war surrendered voluntarily before the end of the war.
The British, the ally of the Americans, are still more humane to the Germans, which may be the greatest praise for the gentlemanly manners of the British.
Germany
[Edit this paragraph] Germany massacred Jews in World War II
Hitler was an extreme racist and anti-Semitic. In Mein Kampf, he wrote: "The most Nazi Germany in Aryan, 1938, promoted the cartoon" The Jews are in control of the world, and the great opposite is the Jews ". He regards Jews as the enemy of the world, the root of all evil, the root of all disasters and the destroyer of human life order. These views became the theoretical basis for Hitler's subsequent slaughter of millions of Jews in an attempt to exterminate them. The reasons can be roughly seen from the following four aspects:
1, historical reasons. Historically, Europeans have been prejudiced against Jews. In order to clarify this issue, it is necessary to make a simple institutional review of the history of the Jewish nation. The distant ancestor of the Jews was the Hebrews, a branch of the ancient Semitic people. Before BC, their ancestors used to live in the land of Malestan in Arabia. 1 century, after the Roman Empire captured Pakistan, Jews held many large-scale uprisings against the Roman occupiers, but they were brutally suppressed by the Roman rulers. It was not until A.D. 135 that the Jewish uprising was defeated. During this 1 century, the Roman rulers slaughtered millions of Jews, and finally drove all the rest out of the land of Malestan, making them scattered to the backward small-scale farming and pastoral society in Western Europe. Land is regarded as the most precious wealth, while commerce is an industry that people despise. After the Jews fled to western Europe, the local feudal lords discriminated against them very much, forbidding them to occupy land and allowing them to run businesses only. I don't know whether the fault of history educated them, or whether the hardships of life and death sharpened them, or whether history gave them opportunities. In a word, the historical aggregate formed by all this has cast the characteristics of Jews and made them smart and powerful. They not only grow sturdily in difficulties, but also become rich gradually.
From 13 to 15, Europe began to enter the capitalist society, and the local emerging bourgeoisie had conflicts of interest with the emerging Jewish capitalists who became rich through business, and bad luck came to the Jews again. The conflict of real interests and the difference of religious beliefs forced a large number of Jews to flow to Eastern Europe and American countries, and began the second Jewish exodus in history. Unfortunately, this anti-Semitic consciousness has actually evolved into a cultural deposit, which has been "passed down" to modern times in some countries and regions. Especially in Germany and Austria after entering this century, anti-Semitism is increasing day by day, among which Hitler and his followers are typical representatives.
2. Religious complex. Christianity is the most widely spread religion with the largest number of followers in the world. In Europe, especially in western Europe, people generally believe in Christ Jesus. Although the Old Testament, one of the Christian classics, was originally a Jewish classic, there is a close historical relationship between the two religions. However, according to Christian doctrine, Judas, one of Jesus' 12 disciples, betrayed the son of God for 30 pieces of silver coins, and the Jews crucified Jesus, which caused Christians' emotional hatred towards the Jews. Therefore, it is difficult for Christians in Europe to accept Jews in religious feelings. This socialization of religious feelings has gradually evolved into a popular social mentality of hating Jews. Similarly, this social mentality is also a kind of cultural precipitation. Generations "inherit" and gradually combine with social economy and politics with the passage of time, making it a potential social and political force that can be used at any time. When this potential thing is used by one (or more) political careerists, it will erupt like a volcano and become a crazy social driving force.
It should be noted that nationalism prevailed in Germany and Austria at that time, and the original religious sentiment intensified under the real conflict of interests, which made people's existing anti-Semitism more intense, thus intensifying their hatred of Jews. Under the influence of this social atmosphere, Hitler's view of "hatred of Judaism and anti-Semitism" gradually formed and quickly became the dominant of this social sentiment. On the one hand, the social sentiment of hatred of Judaism and anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria at that time greatly stimulated his political ambition, which made his nationalist thoughts expand viciously, created social value orientation and cultivated political power for his policies and measures of hatred of Judaism and anti-Semitism in the future. Nazi police beat Jews.
3. Realistic needs. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the world economic crisis broke out, which severely hit Germany, making its industrial production fall back to the level at the end of last century, and its national strength gradually declined. The profound economic crisis not only intensified the class contradictions at home, but also stimulated the monopoly bourgeoisie's ambition to expand abroad. "The German nation must find a way out from the plundered land and production space." Hitler's idea of fighting for the world was supported by the German monopoly bourgeoisie. However, the implementation of the evil plan to establish the Germanic empire of the German nation requires huge funds to provide financial security. In the case of declining national strength, it is natural for them to reach out to wealthy Jews.
In addition, Jews living in all parts of Europe are not only rich, but also have higher quality than other nationalities. Faced with such a nation, Hitler and his followers felt both hatred and timidity. In their minds, Jews, a special social group, are a serious threat to their dream of the "Third Reich". These undoubtedly aggravated Hitler's hatred and political jealousy towards Jews. In addition, the social and political life in Germany at that time was completely in a symptom of extreme madness, which made Hitler's anti-Semitism view not only lose its proper social environment, but also quickly become crazy.
4. Violent morbid psychology. Hitler was the illegitimate child of a small Austrian customs official. He lacked a good education since childhood, and wandered the streets of Vienna and Munich all day in his youth, which made him selfish and arrogant. As one of his childhood class teachers later recalled, "Hitler lacked self-control, at least he was considered stubborn, willful, self-righteous and grumpy." In addition, he suffers from spastic neuroticism, and he will go crazy and even squat on the floor and chew the carpet. As can be seen from relevant historical materials, rage is a typical feature of Hitler's character. For example, one day in 1942, a surgeon of Nazi German armed forces, Zal Borch, was ordered to meet Hitler. Hitler's dog jumped on the doctor and scared him out of his wits. The doctor was forced to speak to him in a low voice Soon he lay quietly beside the doctor, put his front legs on his knees, looked at him meekly and laughed with him. Hitler flew into a rage when he saw this scene: "It is the only creature that is completely loyal to me, but you cheated it. I want to kill it." The voice is getting louder and louder, almost to the point of screaming. I'm afraid of shouting and threatening to imprison the doctor. Such things happen from time to time. Rage is like jealousy, which makes him vicious and cruel. Hitler was a political madman with a serious morbid psychology. Jewish children killed by Nazis
If we look at any one of the above four reasons in isolation, it is difficult to constitute an extinct vendetta against Jews. Only when these four reasons are combined can we have a certain social effect that will lead the Jewish nation to extinction, and Hitler is the leader who skillfully combined these four reasons.
First of all, under the banner of nationalism and socialism prevailing in Germany at that time, the Nazi Party flaunted that the German nation was an excellent one and regarded the Jewish nation as an inferior one. In order to confuse the audience and deceive the German people, Hitler carefully packaged this theory of racial discrimination from two aspects. First, he was afraid that according to his own social logic, he would extract some words out of context from the predecessors' expositions on population issues and piece together a theory of racial superiority and inferiority, thus creating a theoretical basis for pushing Jews to inferior races. The second is to use the deep-rooted anti-Semitic consciousness and religious complex in the hearts of Germans and Austrians to advocate the fallacy of "Jewish plague". After Hitler's deliberate "grafting", this theory is no longer racial discrimination in the general sense. He used historical and religious factors to create a broad social foundation for his extermination of Jews, making this theory more universal and inflammatory. As soon as Hitler came to power, he was able to successfully carry out a set of anti-Semitic policies that persecuted Jews crazily, which undoubtedly benefited from his absurd theory. Secondly, the Nazi party also used the psychology that the German masses hated the Treaty of Versailles at that time to incite revenge, and transferred this emotion to the Jews.
Among these four reasons, the realistic need is the most direct factor, and the other two reasons are also very important factors. Without historical reasons and religious complex as the dominant conditions, it is hard to imagine that even if reality needs it again, it will reach such a crazy and cruel level. Only when these four reasons are combined, a terrible and disgusting driving force full of blood is produced.
Any historical event is the product of various social related factors, or it is created by current events. During World War II, 6 million Jews were killed, and Hitler was the chief culprit. Hitler's unique racial hatred and political jealousy towards Jews is a special reflection of the morbid psychology of political lunatics. The "bacteria" that led to Hitler's serious morbid psychology came from historical prejudice and religious complex, which happened to be bred by the German social environment at that time. To be exact, Hitler's serious morbid psychology and the crazy and morbid social and political life in Germany at that time were complementary. On the one hand, crazy morbid psychology is the adhesive of historical prejudice, religious complex and practical needs; On the other hand, the aggregation of these three reasons pushed Hitler's crazy and morbid psychology to the extreme, which led to the great tragedy of human history.