The Secrets of Hitler's Last Living Aide

spiegel ^ | July 30, 2007 | By Ralf Simon

[spanalot]

“the deaths of approximately one million Germans in what was called, Eisenhower’s death camps”

Is that an accurate death toll?

[jamaksin]

Makes one wonder about FDR's deals, especially Tehran and Yalta.

[P-40]

History, while it’s happening, isn’t black and white.

Isn't that the truth. One of my favorite history professors used to bring that up at the start of many of his lectures. You got two views of history that way, the 'past as the present' and the present.

[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

If you google “Other Losses” and review, you should be able to get different opinions on the book - needless to say, there will be plenty of “Eisenhower death camp deniers”. But according to the review I excerpted above, U.S. Army colonel Ernest Fisher, Senior Army Historian, endorsed the book.

[spanalot]

“Makes one wonder about FDR’s deals, especially Tehran and Yalta.”

FDR’s State Dept Handlers who set up the trip also set up Roosevelt. They were actually communists tho I dont believe they had to do too much prodding. FDR’s wife was a closet commie too.

[Madame Dufarge]

Our second conclusion was that when scholars do the necessary research, they will find Mr. Bacque's work to be worse than worthless. It is seriously - nay, spectacularly - flawed in its most fundamental aspects. Mr. Bacque misuses documents; he misreads documents; he ignores contrary evidence; his statistical methodology is hopelessly compromised; he makes no attempt to look at comparative contexts; he puts words into the mouth of his principal source; he ignores a readily available and absolutely critical source that decisively deals with his central accusation; and, as a consequence of these and and other shortcomings, he reaches conclusions and makes charges that are demonstrably absurd.

Other Losses review by Stephen Ambrose

[Madame Dufarge]

Stephen Ambrose pingy.

[Future Snake Eater]

My battalion’s officers and senior NCOs went on a staff ride to Little Big Horn last year. You always hear what an overconfident idiot Custer was. That staff ride was the first time I’d ever had historical perspective applied to Custer’s decisions. Given what he knew at the time, based on his considerable experience, he made very reasonable decisions—decisions that, in hindsight, turned out to be wrong.

[fso301]

The article states that loyal ‘French SS troops’ were helping to prolong the war, that would certainly be a first! LOL

They had already been released from their oath's of loyalty and could have returned to France but chose instead to go to Berlin knowing they would be fighting to the death.

[fso301]

Done in German, but I didn’t find the subtitles hard to follow at all. Strangely, I hardly noticed them, actually.

Same with the subtitled version of Das Boot. You hardly notice the subtitles because English is a Germanic language

[fso301]

My battalion’s officers and senior NCOs went on a staff ride to Little Big Horn last year. You always hear what an overconfident idiot Custer was. That staff ride was the first time I’d ever had historical perspective applied to Custer’s decisions. Given what he knew at the time, based on his considerable experience, he made very reasonable decisions—decisions that, in hindsight, turned out to be wrong.

If you haven't already done so, you might be interested in reading this online narrative from circa 1930 titled Black Elk Speaks. It's a fascinating first person account of Black Elk, a member of the Oglala Sioux from his birth circa 1863 until Wounded Knee in 1890. Black Elk was a cousin of Crazy Horse and participated in among other battles, Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee.

Some accounts of Black Elks contemporaries were also included in the narrative. While it was outside the scope of the book, Black Elk became a Catholic circa 1895 and lived until 1950.

[Ditto]

The article states that loyal ‘French SS troops’ were helping to prolong the war, that would certainly be a first! LOL

Not a first at all. There were many French (and other Europeans) who thought that Hitler was just dandy and the SS loved to use them. If anything, they were more brutal than the German SS units. Check out the patch on this Frog's sleeve.

More on the French SS here.