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Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who helped edit Other Losses, wrote I quarrel with many of your interpretations, I am not arguing with the basic truth of your discovery and acknowledged that Bacque had made a " major historical discovery ", in the sense that very little attention had hitherto been paid to the treatment of German POWs in Allied hands.
Even with regard to the poor conditions of prisoner camps highlighted by Bacque which the panel members agree existed, the New Orleans panel concluded that Bacque raised no new or novel issues that had not been raised since the Maschke Commission findings of the 1960s and 1970s, and studies thereafter that had also chronicled those conditions in far more specific detail.

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Even if two-thirds of the statistical discrepancies exposed by Bacque could be accounted for by the chaos of the situation, there would still be a case to answer.
CONTENTS ( James Bacque contributions ): “ The High Snow ,” p. 67-72 ; “ A small Film ,” 73-80 ; “ Sun and Earth for a Dollar ,” 81-88 ; “ the truth shall make you wierd ,” 88-97 ; “ On the morning of the death of Colonel Alexander Ramsay, O. B. E .,” 98-114 ; “ The Nancy Poems ,” 115-119 ; “ A Conversation with Milton Wilson ,” 120-146.

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* Other Losses ( controversial 1989 book by James Bacque which claims that U. S. General Dwight Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths of around a million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps briefly after the Second World War )

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Bacque was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and then the University of Toronto, where he studied history and philosophy graduating in 1952 with a Bachelor of Art degree.
Bacque was a mainstream fiction writer and essayist before turning his attention, in 1989, to the fate of German soldiers held as POWs by the Allies after World War II.
Bacque argued that this alleged mass murder was a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.
One of the historians in support of Bacque was Colonel Ernest F. Fisher, 101st Airborne Division, who in 1945 took part in investigations into allegations of misconduct by U. S. troops in Germany and later became a Senior Historian with the United States Army.

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He acknowledged he did not now support Bacque's conclusions, but said at the American Military Institute's Annual Meeting in March, 1990: " Bacque has done some research and uncovered an important story that I, and other American historians, missed altogether in work on Eisenhower and the conclusion of the war.
[...] Mr. Bacque is wrong on every major charge and nearly all his minor ones.
Includes excerpt from James Bacque ’ s The Lonely Ones on pp. 144 – 147.
Includes James Bacque ’ s “ A Truth so Terrible: Atrocities against German POWs and civilians during and after WWII ,” on pp. 261 – 267.

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In a subsequent book, Crimes And Mercies ( 1997 ), Bacque claimed that Allied policies ( particularly Soviet policies ) led to the premature deaths of 5. 7 million German civilians, 2. 5 million ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and 1. 1 million German P. O. W. s due to Allied starvation and expulsion policies in the five years following World War II.

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James Bacque ( born 19 May 1929 ) is a Canadian novelist, publisher and book editor.
In Other Losses ( 1989 ), Bacque claimed that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower's policies caused the death of 790, 000 German captives in internment camps through disease, starvation and cold from 1944 to 1949.
" R. J. Rummell, a scholar of 20th-century atrocities, has written that " Bacque misread, misinterpreted, or ignored the relevant documents and that his mortality statistics are simply impossible .".
Kroetsch, Robert, James Bacque, and Pierre Gravel, creation.

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The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.
Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.
At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.
And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
Waddell was not an eminently moral person, but he did not like what he had just heard.
He had just paid a brief visit to the Frick Collection to admire his favorite paintings by Rembrandt and Franz Hals.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.
This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

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The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.
Sometimes the pilot had to turn back if fully blocked by fog, but 85% of his trips were completed.
Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.
William A. Redding asserted that if the case had been heard in open court under rules of evidence, the testimony would have been completed in sixty days instead of five years.
After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.
It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.
Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.
* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens.
Apollo 16 would spend one less day in lunar orbit after surface exploration had been completed to afford the crew contingency time to compensate for any further problems and to conserve expendables.
By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.
The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.
The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.
In September 2011, it was announced that the new president, Thomas DiBenedetto, had reached an agreement with the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, to have the new stadium completed by 2016.
The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.
Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed.
Although it was Alexanders most significant writing, it had not been completed, therefore leaving historians left with many questions on the reliability and quality of the writing.
Beethoven wrote the two piano trios while spending the summer of 1808 in Heiligenstadt, Vienna, where he had completed his Symphony No. 5 the previous summer.
By 1000AD the Bantu colonization of the eastern half of South Africa had been completed ( but not Western Cape and Northern Cape, which are believed to have been inhabited by Khoisan people until Dutch colonisation ).
In these sutras the perfection of the wisdom of not-self is stated to be the true self ; the ultimate goal of the path is then characterized using a range of positive language that had been used previously in Indian philosophy by essentialist philosophers, but which was now transmuted into a new Buddhist vocabulary to describe a being who has successfully completed the Buddhist path.
* In 1964 Burroughs had also completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations.
For his Viola Concerto, Bartok had completed only the viola part and sketches of the orchestral part.
It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

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