A Historian Told Us Why Woodrow Wilson Was the Worst U.S. President Ever

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[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Why do think so?

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Eisenhower hatred of Germans, a few of his letters described how he wanted to kill every German in the world then drop a atomic bomb wiping out everything. Here's a book https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/22/specials/ambrose-atrocities.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

And then there was the inhuman treatment he gave to 700,000 German POWs at the end of WWII (after 1945 Rheinwiesenlager), no one talks about Eisenhower’s Holocaust.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That NY Times link seems to counter that argument.

One of my instructors was a teenager during WWII and worked as a guard at a German POW camp near St. Louis. He said the Germans were astonished how well they were treated and many moved to the U.S. after the war. He said they all talked about the fork-tail devil: how the P-38's wreaked havoc over in Europe.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That NY Times link seems to counter that argument.

Lol, "the Germans were astonished how well they were treated" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager#Conditions_and_death_rates (Conditions and death rates) and https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/was-it-a-war-crime-thousands-of-germans-died-in-american-pow-camps-in1945-m.html

That took me seconds to find but your instructors must know more I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKucVtU8Amc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTHUNx-tM4M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Losses#Body_count_of_German_prisoners

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/57jnwx.htm

So documented videos ,testimony's, red cross reports was all lies but your instructor told the truth, hell hazi German gave better treatment to there prisoners but you think what you like Mr. shit for brains.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What did I do to you? Both statements I made were the truth. That link you posted is a refutation of what you said and I heard my instructor say those things. I didn't call you a liar. I was interested in learning more. You must be really fun at parties.

Here's a link that backs up what my instructor told me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_States

As for your assertion about Eisenhower trying and succeeding in killing over a million German prisoners; all of the accusations come from one person (Mr. Bacque). No one has denied that German POWs in Europe after the war were under-fed and under-sheltered for a time by the Americans, British, French, and Soviets, especially during the continent-wide food shortage of 1945. Even the IRC said that conditions improved within 2 months after they filed grievances.

As to how American POWs were treated, this article tells the story. Worse than German POWs in America, but understandable with the Germans low on food and supplies for their own war effort. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/germanys-pow-camp.html