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Major General Robert W. Grow, USA. Commander, 6th Armored Division in Europe. World War 11<br />

It is true to say that German treatment <strong>of</strong> Russian prisoners-<strong>of</strong>-war was harsh, but as Ralph Franklin<br />

Keeling pointed out in his acclaimed study, Gruesome Harvest Russia was not a signatory to the<br />

Geneva Convention despite Germany's invitation for her to become so. <strong>The</strong>refore Russia had no right<br />

to be protected by its terms. Furthermore, whilst Russian prisoners were treated more badly than say<br />

British prisoners-<strong>of</strong>-war, it is equally true to say that Germans who fell into Russian hands were <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

summarily executed, not unusually after being mutilated. Those who survived were enslaved without<br />

hope <strong>of</strong> release, <strong>of</strong> which virtually all died through deprivation.<br />

Excessive treatment towards Russians held in German camps rarely involved conscript prisoners-<strong>of</strong>war;<br />

but was aimed almost exclusively at saboteurs, German traitors, members <strong>of</strong> the resistance and<br />

underground, spies, etc. Such captives then and now proudly owned up to excesses <strong>of</strong> atrocity that<br />

themselves were contrary to convention both formal and basically human.<br />

Ralph F. Keeling goes on to say that the allied enslavement's have also been justified by the allies on<br />

the grounds that the Germans themselves exacted forced labor from foreign workers... "but it is also<br />

true that, except for special cases such as prisoners-<strong>of</strong>-war coming under the Geneva Convention, they<br />

were for the most part well paid and fed well." - Gruesome Harvest<br />

"Of those forced laborers in the Reich, Dr. James Pollack, who for fourteen months served with the<br />

Allied Military Government, said: "I think some <strong>of</strong> the persons found themselves better <strong>of</strong>f than at<br />

any time in their lives before."<br />

- James M. Haswell, Washington, August 27th 1946. Chicago Daily News<br />

"A mass <strong>of</strong> evidence proves that this is true and that allied war propaganda to the contrary was greatly<br />

exaggerated." - Ralph F. Keeling, Gruesome Harvest<br />

"What did the Germans do to get efficient production from forced labor that we were not able to do<br />

with Germans working down the mines? <strong>The</strong>y fed their help and fed them well."<br />

Max H. Forester, Chief <strong>of</strong> Allied Military Government and Mining Division, July 1946<br />

"Conditions <strong>of</strong> slave labor in Britain, France and Russia, menace world peace and they destroy world<br />

trade." - <strong>The</strong> American Federation <strong>of</strong> Labour, 1946<br />

CHAPTER.23<br />

THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!<br />

"<strong>The</strong>re were no gas chambers at Auschwitz or anywhere else in wartime Europe. On that I state<br />

my reputation and career." - Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Robert Faurisson<br />

<strong>The</strong> Soviet Union dressed its aggressive territorial expansion up as the 'Great Patriotic War', ignoring<br />

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