Review of WW2 revisionism James Bacque: Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950
1997 pioneering book, still undigested, June 26, 2010Based mostly on Soviet records and Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford. First published in 1997 (after the Soviet Union collapsed, of course; before this, Bacque published Other Losses after three years' research in 1989). Bacque is Canadian, or lives in Canada; his bibliography has German sources, but not Russian, suggesting he is fluent in German. The book has black and white photos on art paper, a couple of badly-reproduced maps, and appendices, notes, and index. The book (published by a mainstream US publisher) seems to have had a reception similar to David Irving's book on Dresden. In my view this book is part of the long slow process of facing facts about the Second World War—and the First, as there was forced starvation in Germany after that war too. Bacque I think estimates 9 million deaths to 1950. I have to say he seems a bit cavalier in his use of percentages to infer deaths, as population pyramids and other things ought to be taken into account. But there were staggering numbers of prisoners taken—I believe something like 6 million Russians surrendered to the Germans, for example; later, things reversed as millions of Germans were expelled from the east though it's not entirely clear how many of them had moved there since the 1930s. There were colossal numbers of atrocities too, in addition to starvation and deaths, all censored from the smug cottonwool of the BBC, NBC and the rest and the press.
Cynical readers might wonder why an ordinary American publisher would handle such a book and it comes as no surprise to find Bacque accepting much of the usual quoted material. This book is a landmark, but after thirteen years it's still 'controversial'.
Note added 4 Nov 2018: Other Losses, a film by James Bacque ('Executive Producer Robert Steinart, Editorial Team Elisabeth Bacque, Lt Col Afred Zips', ... 11 witnesses... numerous archives). Kyffhaeuser-verlag.de ('Shop for antiquarian books' says Google) is linked from David Irving's site fpp.co.uk on November, 2018.
I suspect this publishing event—which appears to be tolerated both in Germany and on Youtube—is simply part of the controlled release of controlled information. A red flag for me was the mention of Victor Gollancz, a Jewish publisher of propaganda, including greuelpropaganda, before WW2. Another is the Holohoax assumption. There is no mention of Jewish funding for Jews vs whites. No doubt aware viewers will find other omissions—for example the fate of Germans (and others) not under 'Allied Occupation'. And of course other nations/ races/ groups which have suffered under Jew-directed atrocities.