Other Losses: An Investigation into the mass deaths of German prisoners at the hands of the French and Americans after World War II

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See also Bacque’s "Crimes and Mercies" (1997) "In the U.S. Army prison camps of Germany and France at the end of World War II, almost four million German soldiers were held prisoner outdoors, in unsheltered barbed-wire enclosures, with little or no food and water, for months on end. At least 750,000 died of malnutrition and disease. The French Army, which took some 740,000 prisoners from the Americans to use as reparations labour, starved and mistreated them so appallingly that over 250,000 died. Most were soldiers of the Wehrmacht who surrendered in May 1945, but scores of thousands were women, children and old men. Most of these deaths were listed simply as Other Losses or Perdu Pour Raison Diverses. ..." Principal Events Relating to This Book. Acronyms and Short Forms. Foreword by Dr. Ernest F. Fisher Jr. Introduction. 1. Deciding Germany’s Fate. 2. Without Shelter. 3. No Public Declaration. 4. The Cruelty of the Victor. 5. Summer of Starvation. 6. Keeping Help Away. 7. The Slow Death Camps. 8. Liming the Corpse. 9. Inside the Greenhouse. 10. The British and Canadians. 11. Myth, Lies and History. 12. By Winks and Nods. Appendices: Introduction. Appendix 1. Other Losses in the American Camps. Appendix 2. The ETC Medical History. Appendix 3. The Provost Marshal Reports. Appendix 4. The SHAEF-USFET Papers. Appendix 5. The June 2 Discrepancy: SHAEF G3 and Generals Lee and Littlejohn. Appendix 6. Discrepancy in Number of Captives, June 2 and September 8, 1945. Appendix 7. The Midnight Shift. Appendix 8. The Prisoners in the Bremen Enclave (SCOFOR Forces). Appendix 9. The British Discrepancy. Appendix 10. Escapees from French Camps. Notes. Archives Visited with Their Short Forms. Selected Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index.