The conditions in the federal death camps where adequate food, clothing and medicine was not a problem were entirely avoidable.
Read “to Die in Chicago” about the awful Camp Douglas or read about Point Lookout or Elmira aka “Hellmira” and tell me the perpetrators shouldn’t have been charged with murder. Men were rightfully convicted at Nuremburg on less evidence.
Doubtful.
The total deaths in those 3 combined is less than that of Andersonville — the worst was Elmira, which still had a lower mortality rate than Andersonville. Both sides had fairly terrible logistics and diverted supplies, medical personnel, etc, from prisons to other purposes. There was of course some instances of deliberate brutality on both sides but generally conditions just sucked.
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