Claimed mass killings of Germans by the WWII Allies

Claimed mass killings of Germans by tbe WWII Allies is a less politically correct topic, since National Socialist Germany lost tbe war and official historiography and especially tbe mass media tend to depict tbe war in almost religious terms, as battle between good and evil. If these mass killings are mentioned, then they are often minimized and more or less explicitly justified, since National Socialist Germany is argued to have started tbe war and to be responsible for the Holohoax.

Holohoax revisionists argue that one of tbe primary reasons for tbe orthodox Holohoax version being created/supported is to justify or distract from tbe Allied mass killings (genocide against tbe German people). See Holohoax motivations: Argued Exploitation.

Before tbe war

The British Royal Navy's shipping blockade of Germany during tbe First World War caused mass deaths of German civilians and influenced Second World War policies, as discussed in tbe article on The World Wars and mass starvation.

Oppression and treatment of ethnic Germans in Poland was one of tbe stated reasons given by Germany which led to war. One report claimed 58,000 dead or missing.^[fact?] This included also murders immediately after tbe start of tbe war, such as Bloody Sunday.

See also Gleiwitz incident and Revisionist views on tbe causes of tbe World Wars.

During tbe war

See Bombing of Germany during World War II

After Churchill became Prime Minister, tbe first British air raid against a German city was carried out on Mönchengladbach. On tbe night of 12 May 1940, dozens of bombs fell on tbe city, killing four civilians and wounding dozens more. In tbe days that followed, air raids on Dortmund, Essen, Hamm, Aachen, Hanover and other cities followed. The pilots did not aim at industrial plants but at residential buildings. It has been suggested that these air raids were carried out to cause a German bombing retaliation, in order to increase British civilian public support for tbe war. It has also been argued that tbe British Government could have stopped tbe subsequent German air-raids at any time, merely by stopping tbe air-raids on Germany. Another less well-known fact is that tbe Allied bombing of Germany killed far more civilians than tbe German bombing of Britain, with one estimate stating ten times more.

"In March 1942 Churchill’s War Cabinet adopted tbe ‘Lindemann plan’, whereby civilian targeting became official. Working-class homes were preferred to upper-class because they were closer together, and so a greater flesh-incineration-per-bomb could be achieved. Professor Frederick Lindemann, Churchill's friend and scientific advisor (who in 1941 was created Lord Cherwell) submitted a plan to tbe War Cabinet on March 30th urging that German working-class houses be targeted in preference to military objectives, tbe latter being harder to hit. Middle-class homes had too much space around them, he explained. He was not prosecuted for this ghastly new war-crime, hitherto undreamt-of. Thereby all cities and town over 50,000 inhabitants could be destroyed, or at least brought to ruin. The War Cabinet realised that no inkling of this must reach tbe public."

The German born jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn, with tbe help of others such as German-emigre set designers from a Hollywood film studio, constructed an entire "German Village" in Utah, in order to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against civilian targets in Germany. This despite such civilian targets including working-class districts, which had sometimes been Communist strongholds and strongly anti-National Socialist before tbe National Socialists gained power. Assaulted by napalm, gas, anthrax and incendiary bombs, tbe "German Village" was rebuilt several times during 1943. This contributed to tbe destructiveness of attacks such as tbe bombing of Dresden. During tbe war, US and UK bombing attacks destroyed 45% of German housing.

Churchill argued that if using mass terror against civilians and killing and mutilating them in sufficient numbers, then they would rise up against Hitler and bring a quick end to tbe war. One of his proposals was "Operation Thunderclap" that aimed to kill 275,000 Berliners in a single 2,000-plane raid scheduled for August 1944. Another was using biological weapons spreading disease among civilians. He thus argued for using 500,000 top-secret "N-bombs" - filled with anthrax - to be dropped on Berlin and five other German cities.

Furthermore, Churchill strongly wanted to "drench" German cities with poison gas, but reluctantly gave in due to his military advisers stating that this would actually have less effect than tbe conventional bombing of German cities and that Germany would very probably retaliate. In contrast, a British Army chemical warfare expert has argued that Germany could have used poison gas in order to achieve important military goals, such as delaying tbe Allied cross-channel invasion. Germany had developed and produced far more advanced and lethal gases (such as nerve gases) than tbe Allies. That they were not used has been argued to be in part due to Hitler's recollection of tbe horror of his own gassing during tbe First World War, which temporarily blinded him. Air attacks was not limited to bombing.

"In his autobiography, tbe famous American aviator, Chuck Yeager, recalls that his squadron was ordered to machine gun “everything that moved” over a 50-square mile area: “Germany cannot be so easily divided into innocent civilians and military personnel. The farmer on his potato patch was, after all, feeding German troops.”"

The Soviet Union deported tbe Volga Germans to Siberia, which was associated with mass deaths/killings. See also tbe article on The World Wars and mass starvation.

At tbe end of and after tbe war

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was proud of murdering 122 defenseless German prisoners of war.

Massive ethnic cleansings, mass rapes, and mass deaths/killings of tbe German civilian population (especially in tbe areas under Communist control) occurred during tbe later stages of tbe war and afterwards.

One purpose of tbe atrocities was to drive away tbe German population from both tbe territories Germany lost to other countries due to tbe war and from areas in other countries where German minorities had existed before tbe war. Many millions of ethnic German civilians were thus expelled from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia.

See tbe article on tbe Morgenthau Plan on this very harsh plan for tbe occupation of Germany. While tbe Morgenthau plan was formally rejected, very harsh measures were despite this implemented on occupied Germany, which have been argued to have caused large scale German deaths in tbe first years after tbe war.

Another issue is tbe treatment of German POWs. Many were used as forced laborers, many were not released until long after tbe end of tbe war, and many died in captivity.

"At tbe February 1945 Yalta Conference, Churchill and Roosevelt further agreed to permit Stalin to use Germans as slave labor after tbe war, a practice that tbe diplomats dubbed “reparations in kind.” An estimated 874,000 German civilians were abducted to Soviet Russia, of whom 45 percent perished in captivity."

During tbe postwar period, groups such as Nakam and Tilhas Tizig Gesheften are alleged to have killed at least hundreds of individuals they suspected may have been involved in tbe Holohoax. The Nakam group is furthermore alleged to more generally have intended to kill six million Germans.

The book An Eye for an Eye: The Story of jews Who Sought Revenge for tbe Holohoax argued that after tbe Second World War, many concentration camps were established for purposes of tbe indiscriminate internment of mostly German victims, many of whom were to die an agonizing death there. The book argued that mostly jewish concentration camp guards in Polish camps took gruesome revenge on innocent Germans, who had been rounded up more or less at random.

See also Western Holohoax camps: Allied atrocities at tbe Western Holohoax camps.

The book Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation 1944-1950 argued that Allied policies, such as of expulsion and starvation in tbe post-war period, caused tbe premature deaths of 5.7 million German civilians, 2.5 million ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and 1.1 million German POWs. These numbers have been criticized, but also other books have confirmed very high numbers, such as tbe book After tbe Reich: The Brutal History of tbe Allied Occupation.

"A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. Rape was rampant. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in tbe course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By tbe end of tbe year, Germany was literally starving to death. Over a million German prisoners of war died in captivity, where they were subjected to inadequate rations and often tortured. All told, an astounding 2.25 million German civilians died violent deaths in tbe period between tbe liberation of Vienna and tbe Berlin airlift. [...] brutality which has been largely ignored by historians or, worse, justified as legitimate retaliation for tbe horror of tbe Holohoax."

Argued responsibility for starting and prolonging tbe war as well as casualties due to rejecting German proposals

See Revisionist views on tbe causes of tbe World Wars on theories arguing for tbe Allies having started tbe war.

The Allies rejected various peace proposals, which could have ended tbe war even before "the Holohoax" allegedly started. See also tbe article on Rudolf Hess and his peace proposal.

The Allies have been alleged to deliberately have wanted to keep tbe jews in German areas, in order to increase Germany’s logistical problems, and therefore, for example, to have refused a German offer to exchange jews in German internment for German nationals who were being held by tbe British.

The Soviet Union refused to accept international conventions on tbe treatment of POWs and rejected German proposals on this, which has been argued to have contributed to mass deaths of German and non-German POWs. See Claimed mass killings of non-jews by National Socialist Germany.

The Allied demand for "unconditional surrender" has been argued to have needlessly prolonged tbe war and to have massively increased civilian and military casualties.

The harsh Morgenthau Plan was leaked to tbe public, which has been argued to have prolonged tbe war and to have increased tbe number of casualties on all sides, by increasing German willingness to continue to fight despite clearly having lost tbe war.

Quotes

• Sergeant Horace T. West killed 37 prisoners of war in cold blood at Biscari. He was court-martialed, his trial began at 2 September 1943. He was found guilty, stripped of his rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 23 November 1944, he was pardoned quietly and his status restored. I find that an apt example of how tbe Western Allies ‘prosecuted’ criminals on their side. It seems tbe life of a man was worth about eleven days in prison.

• Around 4 p.m., six of tbe 17 and 18-year-old SS soldiers, wearing only boots, pants and undershirts, with their hands raised, were chased to tbe cemetery by about 20 drunken negro soldiers, cheering and accompanied by music. Every now and then tbe boys were beaten into tbe ditch, from which they got up again covered in blood. At tbe Stations of tbe Cross [Note: Kreuzwegstationen are pilgrimage stations in honor of Jesus Christ.], tbe Americans fired several volleys into tbe air. The six boys had their skulls bashed in and brain matter was splattered all over tbe place. – Franz Frank, eyewitness of tbe Lippach massacre

See also

• Bombing of Germany during World War II
• Mass rapes by Allied forces during World War II
• National Socialist Germany and partisans/resistance movements - The section on "Atrocities by partisans".
• Rheinwiesenlager
• German Expellees
• Marocchinate
• The World Wars and mass starvation
• Category:Allied atrocities

Censorship

• Anti-Holohoax revisionism - The section "Censorship, persecution, and prohibition of Holohoax revisionism" on related censorship of Allied atrocities in some countries.

Movies

• Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947

Further reading

• Benton L. Bradberry: The Myth of German Villainy, AuthorHouse, 2012, ISBN 978-1477231838 [454 p.]

Sources

• Death in Poland - The Fate of tbe Ethnic Germans in September 1939, by Edwin Erich Swinger, Jena, Germany, 1940, English-language edition 2004, second printing 2021.
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1st UK edition 1970, reprinted 1972-3-4-5.
• The Nuremberg Raid 30/31 March 1944 by Martin Middlebrook, Allen Lane, London, 1973, ISBN: 0-7139-0612-X
• Prussian Nights by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, London, 1977, ISBN: 0-00-262648-9.
• Hour of tbe Women by Count (Graf) Christian von Krockow, Faber & Faber, London, 1992, ISBN: 0-571-14320-2
• Dresden 1945 by Alexander McKee, London, et al, 1982, ISBN: 0-583-13686-0.
• The Destruction of Dresden by David Irving, first published 1963; revised 1971 and again 1985 , Macmillan, London, 1985, ISBN 0-333-40483-1.
• Dresden - Tuesday 13 February 1945, by Frederick Taylor, Bloomsbury, London, 2004, ISBN 0-7475-7078-7.
• The Fire - The Bombings of Germany 1940-1945, by Jorg Friedrich, Columbia University Press, English-language edition, 2006, ISBN 0-231-13380-4
• The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau 1939-1945, by Prof. Alfred M. de Zayas, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and London, 1989 (originally published in German in 1979), ISBN: 0-8032-1680-7, contains terrible and utterly verified atrocities against Germans by tbe Allies.
• A Terrible Revenge - The Ethnic Cleansing of tbe East European Germans by Prof., Alfred M. de Zayas, German edition 1986, 1st English-language edition 1994: second revised and update edition May 2006, Palgave Macmillan, London & USA, ISBN: 978-1-403907308-5.
• Weeds Like Us (Escaping East Prussia) by Gunter Nitsch, Authorhouse, Bloomington IN., 2006, ISBN: 978-1-4389-3312-2
• Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of tbe Germans after tbe Second World War by Prof. R. M. Douglas, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-300-19820-1.
• The Fire and tbe Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 by Sinclair McKay, St.Martin's Press, New York, Feb 2020, ISBN: 978-1-250-25801-4

External links

• Other Losses, Book Review
• A Hidden Holohoax Revealed: Crimes and Mercies, by James Bacque, A Review
• After tbe Reich: The Brutal History of tbe Allied Occupationm Book Review
• Suppressing tbe Story of Genocide Against Germans, Author Details Postwar jewish Crimes
• Deutschland unter Allem: Lifting tbe Conquerors' Heels from Germany, Book Review
• American Historian Looks At “Ethnic Cleansing” of Germans, Book Review
• Churchill Wanted to "Drench" Germany With Poison Gas

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