Трябва ли поне всеки за себе си, като човек, да осъди престъпленията, извършени от победителите във Втората Световна война? Казвам престъпления и имам предвид един невероятен по размерите си целенасочен геноцид, извършен спрямо германския народ под лозунги за демокрация и в сянката на бесилките в Нюрнберг като декор. Чел ли си например това: Published this September, "Crimes and Mercies" is over 300 pages in length. These include over 30 maps, photos, and illustrations; a foreword by historian and legal scholar, Alfred de Zayas, and an introduction by the author; eight chapters of text, as well as an index, bibliography, notes, and appendices. But it is probably on page 131 that we find the epicenter of the book, and its seismic thesis; it is here, in a little, statistical chart, that Bacque's findings may be seen in a single glance. TOTALS OF DEATHS Minimum - Maximum Expellees (1945-50) 2,100,000 - 6,000,000 Prisoners (1941-50) 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 Residents (1946-50) 5,700,000 - 5,700,000 _________ __________ Totals 9,300,000 13,700,000 "Expellees" refers to the 16,000,000 ethnic Germans who were driven from their ancestral homelands in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere in Europe, at war's end. These included mostly women and children and elderly men who, with a few belongings in hand and running the gauntlet of deep, local animosity, set out upon the open road toward the rump state of Germany. "Prisoners" are, of course, the German POWs, the subject of Bacque's first book. "Residents" here refers to the German civilian population that survived the Second World War. According to Bacque, given the extraordinarily harsh conditions imposed upon them by the Allies (i.e., the British, French, Soviets, and Americans), at least 9.3 million and possibly as many as 13.7 million Germans, had, by 1950, needlessly died as a result. He writes: "This is many more Germans than died in battle, air raids and concentration camps during the war. Millions of these people slowly starved to death in front of the victors' eyes every day for years." Adding: "These deaths have never been honestly reported by either the Allies or the German government." It is this dishonesty, which is also part silence, part indifference, part anti-German animus, as well as corrupt scholarship, that Bacque intends to remedy with the present volume. Ако се заинтересуваш, пусни си един "search" за автора James Bacque и книгите му "Other losses" и "Crimes and Mercies" - за съжаление ги няма онлайн, но има доста резюмета и коментери.