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Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Kind of makes makes me feel sometimes
Didn't have to grow
We are eagles of one nest
The nest is in our soul
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone (Remaster) (Official Audio) https://t.co/92JbH6BGw0 via @YouTube
We didn’t care about how much protein we ate. We used drugstore shampoo and conditioner. We drank out of plastic bottles. We touched receipts. We could wait in a line without needing to check our phones. We could watch a 3-hour movie without even flinching. No one knew what was happening in our lives because we didn’t have social media to tell them. We could get to places without using GPS. We didn’t even know how powerful we were.
Debunking the Claim: Eisenhower Did NOT Intentionally Starve German POWs
The accusation (popularized by James Bacque’s Other Losses) that Eisenhower deliberately starved hundreds of thousands to over a million German prisoners is false. Harsh conditions existed in 1945 transit camps due to chaos, massive surrenders, destroyed infrastructure, and a Europe-wide food crisis—but this was not a policy of extermination.
Key Evidence from the West German Maschke CommissionWest Germany’s official scholarly commission (Maschke Commission, 1960s–1970s) thoroughly investigated the fate of German POWs in a 22-volume report.
For the main U.S. Rhine meadow camps (Rheinwiesenlager): ~557,000 prisoners held.
Official deaths: 3,053.
Parish registers: 5,311.
The commission rejected much higher claims (e.g., 32,000) as impossible and estimated no more than roughly double the parish figure.
Overall U.S.-held German POW death rate: ~1% or lower (total deaths in the tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands).en.wikipedia.org
These German historians documented suffering but found no evidence of deliberate mass starvation by Eisenhower.
Eisenhower Actively Warned About Food Shortages and Pushed for More AidEisenhower repeatedly alerted superiors to the crisis and called for action before Germany’s surrender:
February 1945, to Gen. George C. Marshall:“I am very much concerned about the food situation. . . . We now have no reserves on the Continent of supplies for the civil population.”
April 25, 1945, to the Combined Chiefs of Staff:“Unless immediate steps are taken to develop to the fullest extent possible the food resources in order to provide the minimum wants of the German population, widespread chaos, starvation and disease are inevitable during the coming winter.”
He supported shifting from strict early occupation policies to recovery, helping enable later efforts like the Marshall Plan.Additional Context
Postwar Europe faced severe food shortages affecting everyone (Germans, Allies, displaced persons).
“Other losses” in records = transfers/releases, not hidden deaths.
Eisenhower endorsed rebuilding West Germany as Europe’s economic engine.
Mainstream historians (U.S. Army, German experts like Rüdiger Overmans) confirm low death rates and no genocide
Bottom line: Conditions were tough due to war’s aftermath, but the Maschke Commission, Eisenhower’s own warnings, and historical records debunk intentional starvation lies.
References
Maschke Commission findings (via Wikipedia/Other Losses debate summaries).
Eisenhower letters (cited in Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood, NYT review, etc.). Scholarly rebuttals: Guenter Bischof, Stephen Ambrose, et al. (1992).
This Video is from a true credible independent Military historian - not someone who took history in school and lives in Canada or Mike King who is in advertising.
Look at the comments from family members who had relatives who were there in the German camps.
https://t.co/IYN5C1Zxqw
@ninoboxer People who listen to ToreSays have known for years about plans to control the water supply by making it scarce. Hence; Data Centers... among other methods, like chemical spills from train derailments and such.
@JP_ARKS I recall seeing a man years ago, Nordic, muscular, shaved head and extremely high vibration. He loudly whistled Christmas songs in a way that seemed defiantly joyful (it was not Christmas time). We did not know what to make of him. I did not know then what I know now.