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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.
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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 had just completed a comic drama for the stage entitled Conrad, about a media mogul in prison, which was scheduled for production on October 2, 2009 at the George Ignatieff Theatre in Toronto.
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.
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The published correspondence of James Bacque of Canada and Richard Matthias Müller of Germany.
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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.
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.
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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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 .".
[...] Mr. Bacque is wrong on every major charge and nearly all his minor ones.
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.
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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He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.
A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
No one was ever educated through bull-sessions in anything other than, to quote him again, `` perfumed bullshit.
Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.
Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.
As Mr. Palmer was educated to house-building only, and had never seen a structure of this nature ; ;
Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.
Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.
Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy.
His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.
He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.
Korzybski was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology in engineering.
Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.
Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.
He was educated in Rome, studying literature, law, and rhetoric.
He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.
Albertus was educated principally at Padua, where he received instruction in Aristotle's writings.
From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.
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He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.
And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.
Then he was on his way at a gallop.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.
Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.
`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
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