- "God, I hate the Germans..."
--Dwight David Eisenhower in a letter to his wife in September, 1944
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First, I want you to picture something in your mind. You are a German soldier
who survived through the battles of World II. You were not really politically
involved, and your parents were also indifferent to politics, but suddenly
your education was interrupted and you were drafted into the German army
and told where to fight. Now, in the Spring of 1945, you see that your
country has been demolished by the Allies, your cities lie in ruins, and
half of your family has been killed or is missing. Now, your unit is being
surrounded, and it is finally time to surrender. The fact is, there is
no other choice.
It has been a long, cold winter. The German army rations have not been
all that good, but you managed to survive. Spring came late that year,
with weeks of cold rainy weather in demolished Europe. Your boots are tattered,
your uniform is falling apart, and the stress of surrender and the confusion
that lies ahead for you has your guts being torn out. Now, it is over,
you must surrender or be shot. This is war and the real world.
You are taken as a German Prisoner of War into American hands. The Americans
had 200 such Prisoner of War camps scattered across Germany. You are marched
to a compound surrounded with barbed wire fences as far as the eye can
see. Thousands upon thousands of your fellow German soldiers are already
in this make-shift corral. You see no evidence of a latrine and after three
hours of marching through the mud of the spring rain, the comfort of a
latrine is upper-most in your mind. You are driven through the heavily
guarded gate and find yourself free to move about, and you begin the futile
search for the latrine. Finally, you ask for directions, and are informed
that no such luxury exists. No more time. You find a place and squat. First
you were exhausted, then hungry, then fearful, and now--dirty. Hundreds
more German prisoners are behind you, pushing you on, jamming you together
and every one of them searching for the latrine as soon as they could do
so. Now, late in the day, there is no space to even squat, much less sit
down to rest your weary legs. None of the prisoners, you quickly learn,
have had any food that day, in fact there was no food while in the American
hands that any surviving prisoner can testify to. No one has eaten any
food for weeks, and they are slowly starving and dying. But, they can't
do this to us! There are the Geneva Convention rules for the treatment
of Prisoners of War. There must be some mistake! Hope continues through
the night, with no shelter from the cold, biting rain.
Your uniform is sopping wet, and formerly brave soldiers are weeping all
around you, as buddy after buddy dies from the lack of food, water, sleep
and shelter from the weather. After weeks of this, your own hope bleeds
off into dispair, and finally you actually begin to envy those who, having
surrendered first manhood and then dignity, now also surrender life itself.
More hopeless weeks go by. Finally, the last thing you remember is falling,
unable to get up, and lying face down in the mud mixed with the excrement
of those who have gone before.
Your body will be picked up long after it is cold, and taken to a special
tent where your clothing is stripped off. So that you will be quickly forgotten,
and never again identified, your dog-tag is snipped in half and your body
along with those of your fellow soldiers are covered with chemicals for
rapid decomposition and buried. You were not one of the exceptions, for
more than one million seven hundred thousand German Prisoners of War died
from a deliberate policy of extermination by starvation, exposure, and
disease -under direct orders of General Dwight David Eisenhower.
One month before the end of World War 11, General Eisenhower issued special
orders concerning the treatment of German Prisoners and specific in the
language of those orders was this statement, "Prison enclosures are
to provide no shelter or other comforts." Eisenhower biographer Stephen
Ambrose, who was given access to the Eisenhower personal letters, states
that he proposed to exterminate the entire German General Staff, thousands
of people, after the war. Eisenhower, in his personal letters, did not
merely hate the Nazi Regime, and the few who imposed its will down from
the top, but that he hated the German people as a race. It was his personal
intent to destroy as many of them as he could, and one way was to wipe
out as many prisoners of war as possible.
Of course, that was illegal under International law, so he issued an order
on March 10, 1945 and verified by his initials on a cable of that date,
that German Prisoners of War be redesignated as "Disarmed Enemy Forces"
called in these reports as DEF. He ordered that these Germans did not fall
under the Geneva Rules, and were not to be fed or given any water or medical
attention. The Swiss Red Cross was not to inspect the camps, for under
the DEF classification, they had no such authority or jurisdiction. Months
after the war was officially over, Eisenhower's special German DEF camps
were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying that
they were prisoners. As soon as the war was over, General George Patton
simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find their
way home as best they could. Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific
order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps. Knowing Patton
as we do from history, we know that these orders were largely ignored,
and it may well be that Patton's untimely and curious death may have been
a result of what he knew about these wretched Eisenhower DEF camps.
The book, OTHER LOSSES, found its way a few months ago into the hands of
a Canadian news reporter, Peter Worthington, of the OTTAWA SUN. He did
his own research through contacts he had in Canada, and reported in his
column on September 12,1989 the following, in part:
"...it is hard to escape the conclusion that Dwight Eisenhower was
a war criminal of epic proportions. His (DEF) policy killed more Germans
in peace than were killed in the European Theatre."
"For years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW's on
the Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply ... Witnesses and survivors
have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the American
camps to Buchenwald."
It is known, and will be documented in my upcoming book in newsprint format,
that the Allies had sufficient stockpiles of food and medicine to care
for these German soldiers. This was deliberately and intentionally denied
them. Many men died of gangrene from frostbite due to deliberate exposure.
Local German people who offered these men food, were denied. General Patton's
Third Army was the only command in the European Theatre to release significant
numbers of Germans. Others, such as Omar Bradley and General J.C.H. Lee,
Commander of Com Z, tried, and ordered the release of prisoners within
a week of the war's end. However, a SHAEF Order, signed by Eisenhower,
countermanded them on May 15th.
Does that make you angry? What will it take to get the average apathetic
American involved in saving his country from such traitors at the top?
Thirty years ago, amid the high popularity of Eisenhower, a book was written
setting out the political and moral philosophy; of Dwight David Eisenhower
called, THE POLITICIAN, by Robert Welch. This year is the 107th Anniversary
of Eisenhower's birth in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1890, the son of
Jacob David Eisenhower and his wife Ida. Everyone is all excited about
the celebration of this landmark in the history of "this American
patriot." Senator Robert Dole, in honor of the Commander of the American
Death Camps, proposed that Washington's Dulles Airport be renamed the Eisenhower
Airport!
The UNITED STATES MINT in Philadelphia, PA is actually issuing a special
Eisenhower Centennial Silver Dollar for only $25 each. They will only mint
4 million of these collector's items, and veteran's magazines are promoting
these coins under the slogan, "Remember the Man ... Remember the Times.."
Pardon me if I regurgitate!
There will be some veterans who will not be buying these coins. Two will
be Col. James Mason and Col. Charles Beasley who were in the U.S. Army
Medical Corps who published a paper on the Eisenhower Death Camps in 1950.
They stated in part:
"Huddled close together for warmth, behind the barbed wire was a most
awesome sight-- nearly 100,000 haggard, apathetic, dirty, gaunt, blank-staring
men clad in dirty gray uniforms, and standing ankle deep in mud .... water
was a major problem, yet only 200 yards away the River Rhine was running
bankfull."
Another Veteran, who will not be buying any of the Eisenhower Silver Dollars
is Martin Brech of Mahopac, New York, a semi-retired professor of philosophy
at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY. In 1945, Brech was an 18 year old
Private First Class in Company C of the 14th Infantry, assigned as a guard
and interpreter at the Eisenhower Death Camp at Andernach, along the Rhine
River. He stated for SPOTLIGHT, February 12, 1990:
"My protests (regarding treatment of the German DEF'S) were met with
hostility or indifference, and when I threw our ample rations to them over
the barbed wire. I was threatened, making it clear that it was our deliberate
policy not to adequately feed them."
"When they caught me throwing C- Rations over the fence, they threatened
me with imprisonment. One Captain told me that he would shoot me if he
saw me again tossing food to the Germans .... Some of the men were really
only boys 13 years of age .... Some of the prisoners were old men drafted
by Hitler in his last ditch stand .... I understand that average weight
of the prisoners at Andernach was 90 pounds ... I have received threats
... Nevertheless, this ... has liberated me, for I may now be heard when
I relate the horrible atrocity I witnessed as a prison guard for one of
'Ike's death camps' along the Rhine."
Betty Lou Smith Hanson
Note: Remember the photo of Ike's West Point yearbook picture when he was
dubbed "IKE, THE TERRIBLE SWEDISH JEW"? By the way, he was next,
or nearly so, to the last in his class. This article was first printed
in 1990, but we thought it was meaningful to reprint it now.
(Note: During Cadet Eisenhower's time at West Point Academy, Eisenhower
was summoned to the office of the headmaster and was asked some pointed
questions. At the time, it was routine procedure to test a cadet's blood
to insure White racial integrity.
Apparently there was a question of Eisenhower's racial lineage and this
was brought to Eisenhower's attention by the headmaster. When asked if
he was part Oriental, Eisenhower replied in the negative. After some discussion,
Eisenhower admitted having some Jewish background. The headmaster then
reportedly said, "That's where you get your Oriental blood?".
Although he was allowed to remain at the academy, word got around since
this was a time in history when non-Whites were not allowed into the academy.
Later, in Eisenhower's West Point Military Academy graduating class yearbook,
published in 1915, Eisenhower is identified as a "terrible Swedish
Jew."
Wherever Eisenhower went during his military career, Eisenhower's Jewish
background and secondary manifesting behavior was a concern to his fellow
officers.
During World War II when Col. Eisenhower was working for Gen. Douglas McArthur
in the South Pacific, McArthur protested to his superiors in Washington
(DC) that Eisenhower was incompetent and that he did not want Eisenhower
on his staff.
In 1943, Washington not only transferred Col. Eisenhower to Europe but
promoted him over more than 30 more experienced senior officers to five
star general and placed him in charge of all the US forces in Europe.
Thus it comes as no surprise that General George Patton, a real Aryan warrior,
hated Eisenhower.)
[Ed: Patton was keen to fight the Soviets, and reportedly kept some German
units reeady to move against the Soviets... unsurprisingly he was killed
- after the war - in a 'car crash', just like Lawrence of Arabia was conveniently
bumped off, in a similar manner, for his 'pro-fascist' views].
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