https://varjag2007su.livejournal.com/4388627.html
Забавно, что условия для DEF копировали лагеря для наших военнопленных в 1941 году. Примечательно, что сейчас даже мейнстримные западные историки считают крайние оценки Бака, поднявшего тему смертности немецких военнопленных в конце войны, только преувеличенными.
In his 1989 book Other Losses, James Bacque claimed that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower deliberately caused the death of 790,000 German captives in internment camps through disease, starvation and cold from 1944 to 1949. Bacque charges that some of these deaths were DEF designated soldiers that could receive harsh treatment because they did not fall within the Geneva Convention protections. Stephen Ambrose, at the time director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, also organized a conference of eight British, American, and German historians, which disputed Bacque's claims.[41][41][42][43] Niall Ferguson wrote that Bacque's "calculations grossly exaggerate both the number of Germans the Americans captured and their mortality".[44] Ambrose did concede: "we as Americans can't duck the fact that terrible things happened. And they happened at the end of a war we fought for decency and freedom, and they are not excusable"(с)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmed_Enemy_Forces"...Амброз [один из главных критиков Бака] признал: "...мы, как американцы, не можем уклоняться от того факта, что бывали [тогда] ужасные вещи. И они случались в конце войны, которую мы вели за благородство и свободу, и для них нет оправданий""