On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:58:16 GMT, "Eunometic"
wrote:

No proof of that for the Germans at all: they complied strictly with
the Geneva Convention. Over 95% of American POWs of the Germans
survived the war.

That didn't help the ones sent to Auschwitz.

A 5 percent casualty rate is pretty high, especially if you're not
fighting, and most especially if you're one of the victims.

75 percent of American PWs of the Japanese survived the war. That
doesn't mean they weren't ill-treated.

To be sure, the German military (and more particularly the air force)
were meticulous with respect to their rules for treating western PWs.
(They deliberately let Russian prisoners die by the hundreds of
thousands.) But the system didn't work if you got caught by the
Gestapo, as happened to most airmen on the run; it didn't work very
well if you were a Jew; and it didn't work at all toward the end, when
the PWs were sent on a lunatic death march to keep them from being
liberated by the Russians on the east or the Americans on the west.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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