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This essay was submitted to us by Helmut H. 

Other Losses

An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II
by James Bacque

In 1989 a book titled Other Losses was written and released by a Canadian historian named James Bacque. It related the German experience at the end of World War II and several years beyond. The focus is primarily on the treatment of German soldiers who surrendered in droves in the last few months of the war. They surrendered because they felt the war lost and it was preferable to surrender to the Americans, British, and French who were signatories to the Geneva Convention. They feared the Russians because they had not signed the Convention and their behaviour in the captured eastern German territories defied description in terms of brutality.

It is surprising that this book was published at all and made it into bookstores, because in today’s world any kind of revisionist history relating to WWII is carefully watched and censored by the gatekeepers. But because it was released, it caused a sensation in the media, and they were very quick to denounce it as “flawed”. They didn’t say it was incorrect, just flawed. I would say that is the condition of all published history. It is indeed flawed, and it is the job of historians to revise the history to a more truthful state. This is what James Bacque was doing. A state of objective truth in history, I believe, is not possible, so it is always open to question. There is such a thing as “historical facts” but by themselves they don’t create any public interest. They are dates, names, documents, minutes etc. They can enter into the historical record, but they are not history. History is the gathering of historical facts, the avoidance of others, some exaggeration, lies, selective word usage, and out of that comes a story which we call history. It is very readable and for those with an interest in the past it becomes educational and a pleasure to read.

Flawed history is the norm, and it is no reason to dismiss Bacque’s book. James Bacque highlights a very important example of the avoidance of certain facts. There have been thousands of versions of World War II, but the majority follow a common theme: An evil dictator beguiles a nation of talented, cultured, and intelligent people and convinces them that they are a master race that should rule the world. They believe him and start a war of conquest, but the rest of the civilized world could not stand for that, so they destroy the evil dictator and his nation and everyone lives happily ever after – even the vanquished. That appears to be the history that has been accepted. People like the story so much that they are quite anxious to do it again. The new Hitler is always being sought out: Saddam Hussein, Gadhaffi, Assad, Putin. Nothing more noble than to put an end to another Hitlerian tyrant.

The fact that Bacque’s book may have had flaws is irrelevant because all historical books have them. Bacque is giving us the history that has been “avoided” by other historians. By telling that part of the story, he can point out that the noble people that took on the dictator and whipped him were not that noble after all. The accepted version of World war II now becomes a fairy tale. Fairy tales are nice and we tell them to children, but as adults, we should seek out the truth by exposing lies, or should we continue embracing the fairy tale?

The number of captured and interned German soldiers at war’s end who died gruesome deaths in captivity, numbers somewhere beyond one million. The German soldier’s faith in the Geneva Convention (which they largely followed) was betrayed when, with the stroke of a pen, Eisenhower classified German POW’s as DEF’s (Disarmed Enemy Forces) which dis-entitled them to the protection of the Geneva convention. They were left to die in open fields surrounded by barbed wire, deprived of food, water, shelter and medicine. Any civilian trying to bring them food was shot. Eisenhower’s hatred of Germans was no secret. This wholesale murder of prisoners of war extended to the regular population as well.

The first post-war Chancellor of Germany, Conrad Adenauer, was never pro-Hitler, but as the mayor of Cologne, he seemed a relatively harmless choice for the job. In 1949 he drew attention to the expulsion of 15 million Germans from the eastern provinces and beyond. He stated that 6 million of them had not arrived. The implication is that they were murdered on the trek back to a destroyed Germany. Adenauer was pro German, unlike most of the Chancellors that followed him like Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl, and Angela Merkel. Germany has been beset by traitors to their people after the war. The occupiers have ensured that Germany remained subjugated, guilty, and humiliated to this very day, by installing these leaders. To this day Germany has never signed a peace treaty with its WWII enemies. They are merely a vassal state of the US. and take their orders from them. They ensure that German history will be the version they impose on them. James Bacque threw a wrench into the works with his exposure of allied crimes against the German people. These talented, cultured, and intelligent people have had their soul destroyed and are ashamed of themselves because of the history they have been forced to swallow by their conquerors. Their birth rate is extremely low and many Germans marry into other races and ethnic groups because of this self loathing.

James Bacque’s book has now become a documentary movie which can be viewed on BitChute. It is a piece of history that needs to be examined, or we will continue to live a fairy tale. To move ahead we need to embrace reality and not fairy tales. Watch this movie or read his book, and with greater truth we can move forward. There is no doubt that the world today is in tremendous turmoil and is headed for destruction. The only thing that will set us free is the truth. A good place to start is to re-examine the pivotal event of the 20th century -World War II. There are now legal punishments for doing just that in Western countries, most notably in Germany. It means that the forces that won WWII are still in power and are intent not just on destroying Germany but the rest of the Christian western world. Wake up! There is no more time to sleep.

Helmut H.