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Gruesome Harvest: The Allied Attempt to Exterminate Germany after 1945
On May 8, 1945 the shooting ended in Europe. But, shockingly, the war against Germany went on. Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had decreed that the German people must suffer—and suffer they did. Driven from their homes, looted of their property, decimated by famine and disease, raped, robbed, and enslaved, millions of Germans—most of them women and children—bore the brunt of what Time magazine called “history’s most terrifying peace”. Gruesome Harvest was one of the first books in America to sound the alarm against the victor’s postwar war against the Germans. Bristling with contemporary documentation, burning with humanitarian and patriotic outrage, this informed, riveting classic dares to tell the shameful story of how American and Allied policy makers undertook the political, economic, and social destruction of the German people even as they presumed to instruct them in “justice” and “democracy.” Today, as the propaganda war against the Germans wears on in the media and academic life, Gruesome Harvest, written in 1947 by a courageous American, when the decimation of the German race was still official U.S.-Allied policy, tells a vital story, one that must not be suppressed or forgotten. “If war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate victory, nothing is more certain that victor and vanquished alike would glean a gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering.”–Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, July 31, 1939, to the House of Commons.
150 pages, Hardcover
Published June 23, 2019
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June 5, 2026Absolutely disgusting to know Americans, including myself, have been brainwashed for so long into thinking we (America and the West) have or had some kind of moral high ground. As if we have ever been “the good guys”.
This book only covers WWII, but after other reads (Tower of Basel) and some podcast interviews (economist Richard Werner), it’s clear that Germany was targeted and destroyed. First in WWI and then more so in WWII and the US made a deal with the devil (Stalin) in order to accomplish that goal. Purposely starved (counting calories per person that the US military knew were not sufficient to keep a human alive) millions of German civilians when the war was supposedly over. The US government engaged in and contributed to slave labour and every other kind of inhumane treatment, again, technically AFTER the war was over. After Germany had surrendered unconditionally. The Marshall Plan (1948 - a year after this book was published) was not benevolence - it was the only practical way for the Allies to get their war reparations paid to them. Dead people can not pay back their debts….
The hypocrisy is ASTOUNDING. To this day, Hollywood and the media in general demonise the Nazis. It is by far the worst label to receive. It ends careers. And yet:
—- the US government only tried a handful of Nazi officers (on charges of atrocities similar to those carried out by the Japanese… who the US granted amnesty to in return for the biological warfare intelligence that the US gained from their human experiments at Unit 731)
—- the US gov granted amnesty to and then hired 700+ of the Nazi biological warfare scientists and rocket scientists and brought them to the US (Operation Paperclip)
—- the US and other Allied powers then starved and tortured the women and children who were left in their decimated country
—- all while working hand-in-hand with the Soviets who, by all measurable accounts, had more blood on their hands.
It is indeed true that the victors write the history books.
“We thought we were coming to Germany as liberators to free the German people from dictatorship, to teach them the errors of their ways, and to give them the benefits of our form of democracy and free enterprise.” 😂 Gee, that sounds familiar… Afghanistan? Iraq? And that’s just in my lifetime.
p 111 “Things have come to such a pass that we have seriously been told we must not criticize the Russians or their government… We must realize that there is something seriously wrong with nations, as with people, who cannot stand criticism, who try to place themselves beyond reproach, and that something is equally wrong with people who truckle to them… the Soviet Union… [they] have infiltrated into our government, occupying hundreds of key positions, sitting in our inner councils, and even helping mold our foreign policy.”
That was written in 1947. Hmm… what foreign nation are Americans not allowed to criticise today? (It’s actually against the law in some states.) Who has infiltrated (bought) local elections? And is moulding US foreign policy? Hmm 🤔
This book only covers WWII, but after other reads (Tower of Basel) and some podcast interviews (economist Richard Werner), it’s clear that Germany was targeted and destroyed. First in WWI and then more so in WWII and the US made a deal with the devil (Stalin) in order to accomplish that goal. Purposely starved (counting calories per person that the US military knew were not sufficient to keep a human alive) millions of German civilians when the war was supposedly over. The US government engaged in and contributed to slave labour and every other kind of inhumane treatment, again, technically AFTER the war was over. After Germany had surrendered unconditionally. The Marshall Plan (1948 - a year after this book was published) was not benevolence - it was the only practical way for the Allies to get their war reparations paid to them. Dead people can not pay back their debts….
The hypocrisy is ASTOUNDING. To this day, Hollywood and the media in general demonise the Nazis. It is by far the worst label to receive. It ends careers. And yet:
—- the US government only tried a handful of Nazi officers (on charges of atrocities similar to those carried out by the Japanese… who the US granted amnesty to in return for the biological warfare intelligence that the US gained from their human experiments at Unit 731)
—- the US gov granted amnesty to and then hired 700+ of the Nazi biological warfare scientists and rocket scientists and brought them to the US (Operation Paperclip)
—- the US and other Allied powers then starved and tortured the women and children who were left in their decimated country
—- all while working hand-in-hand with the Soviets who, by all measurable accounts, had more blood on their hands.
It is indeed true that the victors write the history books.
“We thought we were coming to Germany as liberators to free the German people from dictatorship, to teach them the errors of their ways, and to give them the benefits of our form of democracy and free enterprise.” 😂 Gee, that sounds familiar… Afghanistan? Iraq? And that’s just in my lifetime.
p 111 “Things have come to such a pass that we have seriously been told we must not criticize the Russians or their government… We must realize that there is something seriously wrong with nations, as with people, who cannot stand criticism, who try to place themselves beyond reproach, and that something is equally wrong with people who truckle to them… the Soviet Union… [they] have infiltrated into our government, occupying hundreds of key positions, sitting in our inner councils, and even helping mold our foreign policy.”
That was written in 1947. Hmm… what foreign nation are Americans not allowed to criticise today? (It’s actually against the law in some states.) Who has infiltrated (bought) local elections? And is moulding US foreign policy? Hmm 🤔
July 18, 2021
Book about the brutalization of the German people after the war was declared over. Similar to what the North tried to pull on the South but the Germans lost most of their men in the war and had few to protect them.
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