More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II—one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these deaths occurred at all is still being denied by Western governments.At the same time, Herbert Hoover and Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King created the largest charity in history, a food-aid program that saved an estimated 800 million lives during three years of global struggle against post–World War II famine—a program they had to struggle for years to make accessible to the German people, who had been excluded from it as a matter of official Allied policy.Never before had such revenge been known. Never before had such compassion been shown. The first English-speaking writer to gain access to the newly opened KGB archives in Moscow and to recently declassified information from the renowned Hoover Institution in California, James Bacque tells the extraordinary story of what happened to these people and why.Revised and updated for this new edition, bestseller Crimes and Mercies was first published by Little, Brown in the U.K. in 1997.
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James Bacque. Crimes and Mercies
Analysis of additions to population, October 1946–September 1950
Estimated deaths among German civilians, May 1945–October 1946
Comments on Table A
Comments on Table B
General Comments
Sources for deaths of German civilians, 1945–50
Sources for prisoners of war
Spravka: the Kashirin Report
The Bulanov Report
The Petrov Report
The West German Survey of Missing Prisoners
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CRIMES AND
The Fate of German Civilians
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27. An old refugee woman gathers sticks to help cook meagre meals supplied in part by Mennonites from Canada and the USA. (Peter Dyck)
28. Mennonite Peter Dyck, from North America, helps a young expellee boy from the east. (Peter Dyck)