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Calling PoWs 'disarmed enemy personnel' is gaming the rules to get around the rules. You can't unilaterally change the status of captured troops to avoid treating them as prisoners under the convention, but the Allies didn't care about the rules because they had won and no one could challenge...

How are those two things remotely related? The Russian government refused to send food despite the German request. Since they banned the Germans sending food or packages to their own PoWs or let the Red Cross inspect prison camps the Germans decided turnabout was fair play. Source? I mean a...

Again the US army had zero lack of food and supplies, the German army invaded Russia to seize the necessary food to survive and keep fighting the war. US abuses of prisoners was specific policy, in the East the Germans had zero help from the Soviet government so couldn't feed theirs. Many more...

The US didn't keep track of the death rate. They claim only 1000 PoWs died in their custody in Europe, which is a complete joke. To the point that even Stephen Ambrose said those numbers are a farce. We don't know how many died. And no I don't buy James Bacque's 'Other Losses' argument that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmed_Enemy_Forces They changed the rules so they didn't have to feed their prisoners. War crime and crime against humanity by the Allies own rules, especially given the charges regarding the lack of food for...

I've never seen it claimed that the OSS was for rebuilding the German army in 1945. Besides even if true it wouldn't have mattered as literally no one else wanted that and once FDR was gone the OSS was on the chopping block. Truman disbanded them in September 1945, literally a month after the...

Not by the Americans or Brits. They did try to put the blame on the Nazis leaders hanged at Nuremberg, but punished all Germans all the same. That didn't change until 1947-48. It was only about 1948 when the Cold War came into focus that rehabilitation of the reputation regular army was...

Yeah, ever since the 1970s, though particularly since the 2000s when the internet put the culture war into hyperdrive, there has been a huge push to 'correct the record' and demonize Germany in its entirety during WW2. Certainly the German army wasn't clean, but as you rightly point out no army...