Gruesome Harvest
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Manufacturer: Liberty Bell Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781593640088
ISBN: 1593640080
Label: Liberty Bell Publications
Manufacturer: Liberty Bell Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 152
Publication Date: 2004-02-28
Publisher: Liberty Bell Publications
Studio: Liberty Bell Publications
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Summary: Mixed bag - some interesting quotes and aspects - some ideological rubbish
Comment: This book is truly a mixed bag. On the one hand it is very frank at exposing several important and serious aspects of the terrible revenge against German civilians during and especially after the war. But at the same time the author mixes some historical facts with ideological statements that are nothing but rubbish. It may be partly related to the style of writing back then (the work was initially published in 1947). But still, this way of exploiting the fate of these civilians for ideological purposes is repugnant and disrespectful. Therefore, I recommend rather reading e.g. "A terrible revenge" by Alfred De Zayas, "After the Reich" by Giles MacDonogh, or even "Crimes and mercies" by James Bacque. These releases are more pragmatic and put down the facts, yet do not abuse history for idiotic ideologies.
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Summary: Another view of war
Comment: War history is usually first written by the winners so it was very interesting to read this book which shows a different view to what happened after WW2 in Germany. The author courageously wrote this book to show that the military victors were not as wonderful as we may have been taught during our history classes. The mood to punish and re-educate the German people after WW2 was strong. It is a wonder that the country was able to rebuild amidst the starvation and denouncement of its civilian survivors who were left to their own creativity and wits to survive. A study of Post War Germany is not complete unless this short book (140 pages) is read. In planning a trip to Germany, it would give the visitor insight into the culture which is missing from the travel guidebooks.
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Summary: Gruesome Harvest
Comment: Gruesome Harvest was shocking and depressing as it described in shocking detail of the tragic reports and stories about the post war conditions in Germany in 1945 and 1946. The treatment of civilians, women and girls in particular, was horrific. It is dificult to imagine now that the powers of Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States could look the other way when things got so bad in Germany's effort to deal with starvation and a hopeless decline in civil control. Chaos was rampant and it is a miracle that they recovered from a total breakdown of society. It is an historical document which should be more widely
distributed and publicized.
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Summary: Gruesome Harvest
Comment: This book points out things that the average American never knew--how we were starving thousands of Germans and trying to convert their country into an agrarian state, so they would not make war again. Interesting how Russia marched thousands of German citizens from their section of conquered Germany into Russia for slave labor and removed hundreds of industrial plants from Germany to Russia. This points out a time after WWII that Americans should not be proud of. Read this and find out little known facts about post war Germany. Americans did not care what went on there--we wanted to get on with our lives and forget the war and the feeling was that Germany started the war so the German people deserved everything they were getting and then some. Highly recommended.
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Summary: 11 Million Germans were murdered post WWII
Comment: The book Gruesome Harvest, should be on the mandatory highschool and college reading list for history and sociology. It is one of the few books that are available in English that address the murder of millions of non-combatant German civilians and German prisoners of war from 1944 to 1950 as a matter of deliberate allied policy not inefficient logistics as it is most often presented in school text books. It is important because this book was written as it was still happening and includes comments from eye witnesses in the same time period. The book is not politically correct and shocked me because it speaks in a such a predudicial fashion about persons of the black race. That however in this point makes it useful to sociologist and historians because it correctly reflects widely held opinion at the time within U.S. society.
As to the correct observation that allied policy was to reduce the German population through, murder in multiple forms, slave labor, and starvation, and destroy the fabric of the society through mass rape of the female population, other authors are critized for saying the same thing but only decades later. Fact is there is a great effort to keep this information from the public because it shows that the victors of WWII incorporated not only military strategy and tactics but also the NAZI ideology of racial hatred and a policy of extermination and discrimination for one people. 4 million persons perished because of the ethnic cleansing carried out by, Russians, Poles, Czechs, and Serbs according to the former German Prime Minister Konrad Adenauer, 5 million Germans starved to death in occupied Germany according to estimates by the Canadian James Bacque, and 2 million German Soldiers died in allied captivity often while performing slave labor in Auschwitz like conditions. General Eisenhower prohibited the German Public from sharing their own meager rations with detained German soldiers on pain of death. Hence from 1944 until 1948 a U.S. and Russian Holocaust for the Germans was on going. For more information on this topic see books by the following authors: James Bacque (Other Losses)(Crimes and Mercies), Alfred M. de Zayas (Die Wehrmacht-Untersuchungstelle)and(The Nemisis of Potsdam), Guido Knopp (Die Gefangenen), Erich Kern and Karl Balzer (Allierte Verbrechen and Deutschen). A similarly important historical document is the book titled (Alliierte Kriegsverbrechen) which translates to "Allied War Crimes". It is a collection of historical information of eyewitness experiences of hundreds of Allied war crimes. This information was written down in 1946 by German Soldiers held prisoner in Camp 91 in Darmstadt by U.S. forces. Lawyers for the defense hoped to bring some of this information as evidence and perhaps for mitigation to the Nüremberg Tribunal but the it was not permitted. In fact the Commander of Camp 91 attempted to collect and destroy all copies of this book. That is why it is important that as many people read the afore mentioned books as possible. They need to be translated into English and widely read so that the fairy tale of WWII as the last "Good War" can finally be put to rest.
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