I ike Ike

[pynchonoid]

Relevant to a recent thread (should lovable Ike be
included among Pynchon's "criminally insane" world
leaders?),  more shadows lurking in the Zone:

HNN Debate: Was Ike Responsible for the Deaths of
Hundreds of Thousands of German POW's? Pro and Con

In 1989 James Bacque published Other Losses, a
shocking account of the treatment of German POW's at
the end of World War II. Bacque claimed that Dwight
Eisenhower, burning with hatred for Germans, allowed
nearly a million POW's to die in camps of starvation
and illness. Bacque's book sparked new research into
World War II archives and attracted the attention of
the media in Germany. 

In 1990 Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose convened
a conference of scholars in New Orleans to assess
Bacque's claims. The scholars concluded that Bacque
had misread the evidence and vastly overstated the
number of POW's who died of neglect. Bacque
subsequently revised his book after gaining access to
secret Soviet-era archives. He stands by his account.

To help HNN readers sort out the main lines of
disagreement, we asked Bacque to debate his critics. 
 
<http://hnn.us/articles/1266.html>

...enjoy!

-Doug

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