There is no doubt in my mind that it was the intention of the Americans to kill as many of us as possible by starvation. This is a statement made by a fifteen year old Austrian who had served in the German military for only two months before the war ended. He found himself imprisoned by the American military in the Lambach stockade in Austria. He was not fed for two weeks and was forced to survive by eating grass. This young man was also not given any form of shelter, just a plot of ground in the open air.
Hans Schmidt (1927-2010) was only seventeen when he joined the Waffen-SS in 1944. On April 24, 1945, Hans turned eighteen. In May, he surrendered to American forces and was also imprisoned in the Lambach stockade. Hans’ brilliant book, “SS Panzergrenadier, A True Story of World War II” documents his experiences as a young German soldier during the war. He includes painful evidence of many U.S. war crimes committed by trigger happy GIs and the illegal revenge policies ordered by General Eisenhower which ignored all of the Geneva Conventions signed by his own government.
Hans Schmidt was born in Luisenthal in the Saar region which had been under French domination following the end of World War I. Adolf Hitler’s intentions had been to reclaim those German lands that had been severed from the Reich due to the dictates of the Versailles Treaty signed at the end of the First World War. Hitler wanted to protect Germany and Europe from the savage Soviet Jewish Bolsheviks, with Poland as a buffer.
Hitler’s attempts to control the march of Communism failed. Stalin forced the hand of that arrogant blueblood FDR into dealing out most of Eastern Europe and a section of Germany to that monster card shark. The U.S. regime was also mainly responsible for replacing NSDAP (the Nazi Party) officials with German Communists, while former members of the NSDAP were either denied employment or imprisoned.
From Page 340: “By the end of May 1945 I (Hans) had been an American POW for more than two weeks, and I did not like it. During this time I was obviously unbeknownst to me one of the millions of former German soldiers who, on orders of Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been criminally classified DEF (disarmed enemy forces), and thus were removed from the oversight of the International Red Cross that during the war had at all times the opportunity to inspect the German camps where, for instance, American POWs were kept. As a result of Eisenhower’s action we were practically starved to death in open air-stockades where there was no shelter of any kind.”
From Pages 387 and 388: “1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower talks to the British ambassador to the United States during a visit to the American capital and it is stated that he ventured the opinion that 3,500 officers of the German General staff should be ‘exterminated.’ He also suggested that perhaps as many as 100,000 prominent Germans should be killed. To his wife Mamie he wrote: ‘God, I hate the Germans.’
“On March 10, 1945, Eisenhower sent a message to the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff recommending a new class of prisoners called Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEFs). This policy is implemented within days of the German surrender in the first week of May. It stipulates that the German POWs thus designated do not fall under the auspices of the International Red Cross. (The U.S. has reinstituted a similar policy.)
“In May of 1945, the International Red Cross had over 100,000 tons of food stockpiled in Switzerland. Red Cross attempts to ship these goods to starving German POWs in camps on German soil and in France failed. The American Military Government sent trains loaded with foodstuffs back to Switzerland on Eisenhower’s orders.
“In July of 1945 after the Potsdam Conference, General Eisenhower became the military governor of the American zone of Germany. He continued to refuse entry into Germany to Red Cross assistance to the starving Germans (both POWs and the civilian population).
“On July 6, 1945, almost three months after the end of the hostilities, the International Red Cross suggested the restoration of mail service to German POWs so that they could inform their families of their survival. Eisenhower, who did not want the outside world to know what was occurring in the camps under his command, refused this request, allegedly on orders from the War department.”
The U.S. military transferred German POWs to the Soviets and the French for use as slave laborers; while Eisenhower enforced Operation Keelhaul which sent millions of East Europeans into the Soviet maw to be executed or to death in the infamous gulags.
In the author’s opinion on Page 389: “Could Eisenhower’s hate have derived from the realization that the Germans really bested him, even in defeat? Was it the envy of not belonging, and the acknowledgment that in the German Wehrmacht of World War II, ‘Ike’ would never have risen above the rank of a Colonel in charge of supplies?”
Thanks to Christine Miller for presenting me with such a wonderful book. My hard bound copy of “SS Panzergrenadier” by Hans Schmidt contains 402 pages with many photographs and illustrations. Copies can be found on the website www.abebooks.com.
In this book review, I left out details about the twice combat-wounded and frostbitten Hans Schmidt in order to concentrate upon U.S. less than honorable policies which led to a less than democratic Germany. Today, Germany remains occupied by U.S. soldiers almost 70 years after the end of the war. Germans are taught to bear the heavy chains of guilt. They are still governed by the Basic Law, an allied legal creation. Thousands of people of various nationalities have been hauled into German courts and charged with “hate crimes” when they presumed to investigate the facts surrounding Jewish history.
Will the pay back ever end?
Nancy Hitt – 2012
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