“When wives of men in our occupation forces arrived in Germany it became necessary, for their protection against indecent advances by American men, to wear special badges on their arms to distinguish them from German women.” This is from Chapter Five on Page 57 in the book entitled: “Gruesome Harvest, The Allies’ Postwar War Against The German People, The Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany.”
“Gruesome Harvest” was originally published in 1947. It is a stomach turning introduction to the outrageous actions taken by the allies, in particular the US, against the impoverished, homeless, starving, defeated citizens of all stations and nations in the bomb-blasted country of Germany. We have Dr. Edward Fields to thank for republishing this booklet of ego-busting information.
War crimes were committed by the Federal military during and after the War for Southern Independence. Those many years of oppression in the 1860s were a practice run for the mayhem the US introduced to the down-trodden German people in the 1940s.
The author, Ralph Franklin Keeling, was a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a published author. It is truly amazing that he was able to amass such vital information about allied abuses so soon after the war had ended on May 8, 1945.
From Dr. Fields’ introduction: “The war had been over for two years and German civilians were still dying from starvation, a lack of housing and poor medical care. This was not by accident. A deliberate plan had been laid out for the annihilation of the German people by the Jew Henry Morgenthau. He served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 to 1945 under Roosevelt.”
On Page 3: Roosevelt told Morgenthau: “We have to be tough with Germany and I mean the German people, not just the Nazis. You either have to castrate the German people or you have got to treat them so they can’t just go on reproducing people.”
Many military historians would agree that the Treaty of Versailles drawn up at the end of the First World War was a catalyst for the Second World War due to its heavy German reparations and amputations of Germany itself. The Potsdam Conference (July 16 to August 2, 1945) went on to further reduce the size of Germany.
Cowardice upon the part of Western leaders allowed Stalin to retain control of the East European countries he had occupied by force, thereby turning them into Red satellites. Millions of Germans who had resided in these Eastern areas for generations were brutally evicted into their much diminished and devastated ancestral fatherland.
The US exploited their power over the defeated in an unconditional revenge. The Chapter titles in this book are: War Devastation, Extermination by Overcrowding, Pulling Down the Pillar of Labor, The Attack Against German Capital, Bastardizing the German Race, The People Hunger, Economic Tribulation, Teaching Democracy in Reverse, The Kremlin’s Program, and Facts We Must Face.
From Chapter One on Page 7: “All German cities above 50,000 population and many smaller ones were 50 to 80 per cent destroyed. Dresden, as large as Pittsburg, was wiped out and nearly all of its 620,000 inhabitants buried under the ruins.”
From Chapter Two on Page 13: “ Following World War II, emigration has been entirely prohibited, and all the Germans in Europe are being jammed into a homeland further slashed to only 133,000 square miles.”
From Chapter Three on Page 26: “The American delivery of German prisoners to the French and British for forced labor already is being cited by the Russians as justification for them to retain German army captives for as long as they are able to work, an International Red Cross official admitted.”
From Chapter Five Page 49: “Senator Eastland of Mississippi, after a European tour of observation, told his colleagues in the US. Senate early in December, 1945: ‘The virtue of womanhood and value of human life are civilized man’s most sacred possessions, yet they are the very cheapest thing in Russian-occupied Germany today.’”
There were few war crimes the US did not commit during and after the War ended. From the bombing of non-military cities, to the use of prisoners of war and foreign nationals as slave laborers, to the purposeful starvation of prisoners, the stealing of manufacturing factories, the trading in sexual favors for food, and the agreements signed by the US which displaced millions of Germans from their historic homes in the East.
“Gruesome Harvest” is in soft cover and contains eight photographs and 105 pages. It is available from Truth at Last Books, P.O. Box 1211, Marietta, Georgia 30061 for $7.00 which includes postage.
From Chapter Five Page 59: “It (the Potsdam Declaration) fails to declare that the crimes to be committed by the Allied armies of occupation would eclipse those of which the Nazi armies have been accused. Now that the war is over and the heat of combat has died down enough to enable us to view the cold facts again, it must be brought home to the American people that much of what they have been led to believe was born of propaganda, that the German army, for example, actually behaved itself very correctly toward the people of occupied territories whose government were signatories of the Hague and Geneva Conventions. The facts are now well known, and are beyond dispute, despite the opposite picture previously painted in the press as part of the horrendous business of war.”
After reading the embarrassing facts about the behavior of the US which is documented within “Gruesome Harvest” should we continue to regard this nation as exceptional?
Nancy Hitt – 2012
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