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Germany after World War II was one big

prison

throughout the American sector of the

country millions of men were pinned

behind barbed wire in Open Fields

they died in latrine ditches and shelter

holes dug by hand in the earth they died

without water without food Without

Shelter

this happened by the order of the

American Commander General Dwight

Eisenhower who sent out an urgent

Courier on May 9 1945 the day after he

took charge of conquered Germany

forbidding all the citizens of the

country to gather food together in one

place for the purpose of taking it to

the starving men in the U.S camps they

were forbidden on pain of death to feed

the prisoners although the prisoners

were starving

he ordered three train loads of food

donated by the International Red Cross

out of the country and back to the

donors in France and Belgium all of this

was hidden for 44 years until a book

appeared in Canada in 1989 revealing the

atrocity in the forward to that book

Colonel Dr Ernest F Fisher a senior

historian of the United States Army

Center for military history wrote

starting in April 1945 the United States

Army and the French army casually

annihilated a million prisoners most of

them in American camps

this book entitled other losses was

published around the world but in the

United States it was scarcely to be

found anywhere after harsh reviews in

the New York Times and elsewhere which

meant that no Bookseller would stock it

thus Americans were prevented from

knowing about these atrocities while

people around the world were forming

hard opinions against the United States

Army then in 1989 a major in the United

States Army was puzzled to hear a German

citizen in trowan Germany Express a very

bitter opinion about the U.S army camp

which had been there in the summer of

1945 when that American major Merit P

Drucker retired from the Army years

later he remembered the bitter opinion

and wondered what more it might signify

he asked for a copy of other losses in a

military bookstore in New York city so I

called this organization called the

military Bookman which was a military

bookstore in New York and this guy got

on the phone he told me how to copy the

book had been deep sixth deep six being

a slang expression mean had been hidden

and suppressed Drucker determined to

find out for himself if the awkward true

I was a U.S Army guard at a German

prison camp at andanach and I was silent

for 45 years because I was warned it'd

be futile to say anything and I would be

in serious trouble if I did convinced by

researchers in the UK and Germany and by

affidavits received from former

prisoners of War who confirmed the

contents of other losses Drucker decided

that an apology was necessary no

American government official had ever

apologized for the camps so he would do

it himself

he contacted the author of the book

James back and together they invited

Lieutenant Colonel Max clar retired from

the German bundesffer or Army to come to

Washington on October 31st

2011 where the new American edition of

other losses was being launched and

there Drucker formally apologized to Max

clar who accepted the letter signed by

Mayberry Drucker major the two men shook

hands and then embraced with deep

emotion

the dozens of guests in the room were

absolutely still

Clark then read out the terms of a peace

treaty which he was proposing to

supplant the uneasy truce which still

prevails between Germany and her former

enemies the strange truth is that

Germany is the Ally of Western countries

with whom she is still technically at

War this is more than a diplomatic

Oddity as Clark has said Germany is a

country of wounded Souls

begged for financial help by the other

nations of Europe she is still defined

by the United Nations as a hostile state

supposedly Sovereign she must tolerate

the military basis of foreign powers he

is constantly reminded of her past

cruelties by Nations who have never

acknowledged their own she pays enormous

reparations to her victims while German

victims of Allied atrocities are not

acknowledged or compensated

Clara back and Drucker have come

together in an attempt to rectify some

of these injustices they have made

friends despite the odds this is their

video peace for Germany

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