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Canonical name
Bacque, James
Birthdate
1929-05-19
Gender
male
Nationality
Canada
Birthplace
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Places of residence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education
Upper Canada College

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Many GI's coming back from WW2 didn't want to talk about it and this is why. Eisenhowers 18 starvation camps where 2.2 million Germans were simply starved to death after the war. Aged 8 to 80 men, women and children. Our army guys were ordered to stay away from these POW camps where the Germans themselves were turned to skin and bone. Incredible to think that Hitler and many more did escape to South America according to FBI and CIA files recently released. They knew Hitler lived and didn't go after him. A lot of documentation in this book and banter between Generals in French and American armies. War is he'll and this really proved it.… (more)
 
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DMDubrish | 2 other reviews | Mar 30, 2023 |
I was very disappointed, I find interest in looking extensively for errors and misconceptions about history and had looked forward to reading this book, but then??? Having read extensively about WWII history, how is it serious and critical historians have missed all of this mass slaughter he talks about? How also did soldiers come home and not have PTSD problems related to this, but have extensive episodes about shooting a German pointing a rifle at him? How also have we read about so many atrocities but little of these? Well, I shouldn't be too specific as I quit before a hundred pages. I am very disappointed I'm even afraid to give it to the library. His figures and incidences often conflict and contradict. Maybe someone confused this with his numerous fiction books? It's British and printed there also, so they are good at rewriting history? Can't give it lower than one star. Even if you believe it, who rated it a 5? or even a 4?… (more)
 
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Newmans2001 | 1 other review | Jul 5, 2019 |
Hmm

After reading the first couple of chapters, I thought I was going to give this book 5 stars. Clearly, German civilians did suffer in the post-war years, and much of that suffering appears to have been unnecessary. And I'm not one who would dismiss that suffering because "they brought it on themselves". It was also nice to learn about Herbert Hoover's humanitarian work, something of which I had been previously unaware.

By the end of the book, however, my opinion of it had diminished considerably. Bacque tosses a lot of numbers around, but if he's employing some sort of systematic methodology, I wasn't able to detect what it was. Comparing population figure A from source B with population figure C from source D and drawing extreme conclusions from the discrepancy between A and C without taking into account basic notions like random variation and limited precision or the different techniques B and D used to arrive at their figures is not, in my opinion, the way to make a convincing argument.

Bacque's case is not helped by a rambling 5-page appendix in which he presents his suspicions that he's being spied on, nor by his allying himself with figures like Ramsey Clark. (I'll gladly agree that Bacque's case is as strong as Clark's, but that's about as faint as praise gets.)
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cpg | 1 other review | Oct 14, 2017 |
Absolut glaubhaft, Berni als Augenzeuge berichtet das Gleiche!
 
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Hilli | 2 other reviews | Apr 18, 2008 |

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Rating
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ISBNs
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