Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950

As far as the "top reader" Seth is concerned. If you complain about feeling like a "villan" while reading this book, now you know how all Germans and German-Americans feel when a new holocaust book, tv movie, or film is relased and the blame is placed squarely on the shoulders of the German people, not the Nazi government. I cannot express the anger I felt while reading his review. I really feel sorry for somebody that callous and ignorant. So, hey Seth, there's my name and address, look me up, and we'll have a little chat.


Historical accuracy triumphs over politcal correctness!   April 11, 2004
 29 out of 40 found this review helpful

BRAVO! This book is long overdue! Finally historical fact is placed over group think and pressure groups!


To Bad Some "Top Reviewers" are Filled With Hate!   December 31, 2003
 111 out of 120 found this review helpful

If historical facts truely cause some "readers to write trash" so be it. I have read my copy of this book and in my opinion should be required reading by everyone.
Many Germans civilians were killed and their properties stolen from them because of this war. My family lost our farm that we had for over two hundred and fifty years in East Prussia. But I guess accordingly to "The Top Reviewer" we had it coming to us because our German government, at the time, was evil.
I was only a young boy at the time, but we survived. Because we lost our farm in the real eastern Germany, we came to this country.
And I grew up and became an Electronic/Electrical Engineer. By the way. One last special note to "Mr. Top Reviewer", and people like him, when you look up at the moon at night, remember this.
A young German boy survived your bad wishes and was a proud member of the team that helped design and build all of the first unmaned Spacecrafts that landed the moon. This Spacecrafts series were called the Rangers. And they are still there, all of them that went.
Don't forget, never.


Evil is as Evil does   December 12, 2003
 34 out of 39 found this review helpful

I read with absolute disgust the so-called non-review of this book by Seth Frantzman. He sounds just like the Nazi's he condemns. This was not a review but the ravings of a homicidal,evil,racist human being. How did the holocaust happen? Because people and attitudes like Mr. Frantzman unfortunately exist. How could Amazon print this disgusting piece of trash by this pathetic little Hitler who's sole complaint is that there was not enough murder going on in WWII to satisfy him....This man never even read the book. The cure for evil in the world is the cold light of truth not lies and this book does justice in uncovering a dirty secret that the ends do not justify the means. Just because the Nazi's murdered civilians and terror bombed cities does not mean we can, That's why we are the good guys. Acts are evil no matter who is committing them or what excuse is made for doing them.


"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it."   September 3, 2002
 85 out of 91 found this review helpful

An extraordinary book. It tells two of the most extraordinary stories of the 20th century simultaneously. Neither has been told before. One is the story of a great hero - Herbert Hoover, not J. Edgar the FBI boss, but a multimillionaire humanitarian whose courage, outspokenness, persistence and dedication saved literally tens of millions of people from starvation after the first world war and then after the second. And it's the story of why we never hear about this. General Eisenhower, war "hero" and later US president, of whom we have all heard, persued a deliberate policy of preventing available food aid into Germany between 1945-49. Laws preventing immigration turned the country into a prison. As Bacque revealed in earlier book OTHER LOSSES, millions of disarmed soldiers died in prison camps; further more, Bacque tells the story of the suffering of civilians, dying from starvation. It is a part of living memory that times were extraordinarily hard, but Bacque's research has enabled an estimate of the scale for the first time: at least 9 million. He has found the documents which trace the decisions leading to this second holocaust, leading back to Eisenhower and his advisors. It is a courageous act for a man aged more than 70 accuse a war hero and president of being commiting atrocities. Bacques thoughts on collective are thought provocing. It's a sign of the times that a book like this is out of print. By it before it becomes a historical document in itself. Read it and tell people. It's relevant to today.