How many German prisoners of war died of starvation or exposure while held in post-war Western internment camps after World War II?

Smokeylicious

Canadian novelist James Bacque has alleged that nearly one million German prisoners of war were redesignated as "Disarmed Enemy Forces" by U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower in order to avoid having to obey the third Geneva Convention, died of starvation or exposure while held in post-war Western internment camps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_and_German_POWs Jan 22 08, 4:32 AM

bloomsby

But see also: 'In a lecture later transcribed as The Battle For History, Sir John Keegan referred in passing to Bacque's argument as "entirely bogus" and "a crackpot assertion" ..' Also: 'Mr. Bacque is wrong on every major charge and nearly all his minor ones. Eisenhower was not a Hitler, he did not run death camps, German prisoners did not die by the hundreds of thousands, there was a severe food shortage in 1945, there was nothing sinister or secret about the "disarmed enemy forces" designation or about the column "other losses." Mr. Bacque's "missing million" were old men and young boys in the Volkssturm (People's Militia) released without formal discharge and transfers of POWs to other allies control areas.' Source for both these quotations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacque Jan 22 08, 8:55 AM