Crimes and Mercies

by Bacque, James

• ISBN13: 9780889225671
• ISBN10: 0889225672
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

Soon after their victory in 1945, the Allies of World War Two began to commit horrific war crimes against the defeated Germans. Yet at the same time they set up the greatest famine relief initiative in the history of the world. Of all the peoples in the world, only the Germans were victimized, only the Germans were excluded at first, from these mercies. The relief organized by former president of the United States Herbert Hoover and by Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King saved the lives of 800 million people around the world, including, finally, many Germans who had been dying of starvation forced on them by the Allies, before the USA and Canada stepped in.

Author Biography

James Bacque is a novelist, book editor, essayist, and historian whose work has spurred debate on and research into the treatment of German POWs at the end of the Second World War.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvi
Introduction	p. xxiii
A Piratical State	p. 1
The Beginning of Wisdom	p. 17
'From There No Prisoner Returned'	p. 40
A Holiday in Hell	p. 62
And the Churches Flew Black Flags	p. 86
Death and Transfiguration	p. 107
The Victory of the Merciful	p. 135
History and Forgetting	p. 172
Appendices	p. 185
Notes	p. 212
Select Bibliography	p. 254
Index	p. 261
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