Holocaust Photos Reveal Horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps

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[–]fukit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's worth noting that even after the war in Europe ended, something like 40,000 Germans died of starvation and disease in American POW camps, and those are just the numbers Eisenhower admitted to. The actual number is likely much higher. I believe one historian put the number at 1 million. This doesnt include the hundreds of thousands that perished in Soviet POW camps. God knows how many German civilians died in the aftermath. So we couldn't even properly feed these people despite not being fire bombed, strafed, shelled and having our supply lines cut, while vengeful soldiers were razing your cities and raping your women, conditions the Germans were under for years.

[–]ShalomEveryone[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The actual number is likely much higher. I believe one historian put the number at 1 million.

Not true, upwards of 56,000 died.

In early April 1945, the United States was responsible for 313,000 prisoners in Europe; by month’s end this total had shot up to 2.1 million. After the fall of the Third Reich, the number rose to a staggering 5 million German and Axis POWs. Of those, an estimated 56,000, or about 1 percent, died—roughly equal to the mortality rate American POWs suffered in German hands.

The Americans were very civil towards the Nazis. Too bad the Nazis were not civil towards Russian soldiers they captured.

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