Was the “oil for food” crime and Bush”s “enemy combatant” labels a copy of US policies in occupied Germany?

Hidden history? Canadian novelist James Bacque has alleged that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower oversaw the deaths by starvation or exposure of one million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps after the Second World War.

Writer Bacque charges that hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war (POWs), redesignated as "Disarmed Enemy Forces" in order to avoid recognition under the third Geneva Convention, were recorded as entering the camps but not recorded as transferring

out, so they must have died.

Using data from US Army records Bacque has estimated that 726,000 German prisoners died of starvation or disease while in U.S. captivity. A number of historians, including Niall Ferguson, maintain that this is a gross overestimation.[4] However, "the mortality rate for German POW's in U.S. hands

was more than 4 times higher than the rate for those who surrendered to the

British"

When the Vatican attempted to transmit food supplies from Chile to German infants the U.S. State Department forbade it.[13]

During 1945 it was estimated that the average German civilian in the U.S. and

the United Kingdom occupation zones received 1,200 calories a day.[14]

 Meanwhile non-German Displaced Persons were receiving 2,300 calories through emergency

food imports and Red Cross help.[15] In early October 1945 the UK government

privately acknowledged in a cabinet meeting that German civilian adult death

rates had risen to four times the pre-war levels and death rates amongst the

German children had risen by 10 times the pre-war levels. [14]

General Lucius Clay stated in October 1945 that:

      “undoubtedly a large number of refugees have already died of starvation,

      exposure and disease…. The death rate in many places has increased several

      fold, and infant mortality is approaching 65 percent in many places. By

      the spring of 1946, German observers expect that epidemics and

      malnutrition will claim 2.5 to 3 million victims between the Oder and

      Elbe.[14]”

The Victors wrote the  history and destroyed many records ,so some current  historians dispute some of what  Bacque says .

But check it out yourself at :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_and_German_POWs

When asked about the death of 500,000 children in Iraq from US sanctions and oil for food programme  the then US Secretary of State witch ‘Madame “ Allbright declared on Meet the Press “it was worth it”.

A lot more Iraqi children have died since then from hunger ,water borne and other diseases and fom lack of medical care after the US and its allies including Australia destroyed the social  infrastructure with bombing and encouraged desperate  looters to strip the rest.

Families of the soldiers were all treated as “Baathists” and were left after the war without  any incomes.