"The Rhine Meadows Camps - What Really Happened?" Topic

"The Rhine Meadows Camps are a controversial topic, but the truth of what happened is easily established…."

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War is hell….

Armand

Interesting account. I'd heard this claim before.
Setting German troops to guarding the prisoner of war camps with Americans in charge is definitely a different approach.
Asking Britain to provide food for prisoners and European civilian populations? Seriously? Since the British continued to ration food until 1954, this has got to be a case of making a check in the box before going on to countries that could provide significant amounts of food. I'm sure the British would have made an effort, but c'mon . . .
I suppose we might have done better at feeding people in Europe, if we hadn't been switching resources, including cargo ships, to the Pacific in preparation for the invasion of Japan after the German surrender.
I've sometimes wondered about the whole issue of feeding so many people in Europe and other parts of the world (civilians as well as POWs) but never had the opportunity to look into it.
When I was a kid, we visited my great uncles on the family wheat farm in central Kansas. They had two big, round bins for wheat storage, which were empty, and I asked if they'd ever been full. "Yes, back during the war."

Grelber

Thanks…. maybe it was a matter of good administration?…. seems that when the germans took over it…

Armand