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was concerned in its 280 days of front line contact, there was no 'atrocity problem'.... Frankly, I was
aghast, as were many of my contemporaries, when we learned of the proposed 'war crimes' trials and
the fact that military commanders were among the accused.... I know of no general officer who
approved of them."
Major General Robert W. Grow, U.S.A. Commander 6th Armored Division in Europe. World War 11
PRISONERS-OF-WAR:
"All of the ex-prisoners-of-war seemed to me to be surprisingly well fed - both those going into and
coming out of the Russian area. Faces showed the signs of years of captivity; there was no doubt
about that. But I did not see the signs of starvation that I expected after reading the accounts of the
way these people have been treated."
- The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh. p.989. Harcourt Brace Javalovich, N.Y. 1970
SUBMARINE WARFARE:
"The Germans have been claimed to be cruel in their submarine warfare. Beyond what was deemed
necessary for the country's good, the Germans were not as cruel as has been claimed. I recognize in
Grand Admiral Doenitz the master technician that he was. I also recommend his system to the use of
Americans in any sea warfare that might develop...."
Admiral William V. Pratt, U.S.N. Commander-in-Chief, U.S Fleet
"The code of German officers does not differ from our own in any important way as far as I can see."
Major General Churchill Mann, C.B.E., D.S.O., C.D. Royal Canadian Army
"I can vouch that during the five years of fighting of our Fleet, mostly attached to the British Fleet, I
never heard any complaint of atrocities in submarine warfare."
Vice Admiral Epaminondas P. Cawadias, Royal Hellenic Navy
RESPECTED THE RED CROSS:
"The most amazing thing about the atrocities in this war is that there have been so few of them. I have
come up against few instances where the Germans have not treated prisoners according to the rules,
and respected the Red Cross."
Cf. The Progressive, February, 4 th 1945. London Express, Allan Wood, War Correspondent
"The Germans even in their greatest moments of despair obeyed the Convention in most respects.
True it is that there were front line atrocities - passions run high up there - but they were incidents, not
practices, and maladministration of their American prison camps was very uncommon."
Lieutenant Newton L. Marguiles. U.S. Assistant Judge Advocate, Jefferson Barracks, April 27 th 1945
FOREIGN WORKERS. TREATMENT OF:
"It is true that the Reich exacted forced labour from foreign workers, but it is also true that, they were
for the most part paid and fed well."
Ralph F. Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, American Institute of Economics
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