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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Disarmed Enemy Forces was a designation both for soldiers who surrendered to an adversary after hostilites ended and for those previously surrendered POWs who were held in camps in occupied German territory at that time.
		The purpose of the designation is to circumvent the 1929 Geneva Convention, Relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.
		The wording of the 1949 Third Geneva Convention was intentionally altered from that of the 1929 convention so that soldiers who "fall into the power" of the enemy are now protected as well as those taken prisoner in the course of fighting.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Disarmed_Enemy_Forces (321 words)

	Surrendered Enemy Personnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Surrendered Enemy Personnel is a designation for captive enemy soldiers (similar to Disarmed Enemy Forces).
		Most commonly used by British Forces towards German forces in Europe, and towards Japanese and associated forces in Asia after the end of WWII.
		The purpose of the designation is to circumvent the Geneva Convention, Relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surrendered_Enemy_Personnel (98 words)

	Prisoner of war - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prisoners held by Japanese armed forces were subject to brutal treatment, including forced labour, starvation rations, beatings for escape attempts, and were denied medical treatment.
		After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the United States armed forces were placed in a very unfavorable light as evidence was uncovered of U.S. abuse of prisoners of war.
		The United States uses the term enemy prisoner of war (EPW) for hostile forces, reserving the term prisoner of war for its own or Allied forces.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/POW (1010 words)

	Chapter XVI: Germany in Defeat
		Furthermore, the freeing of the displaced persons had cut the farm labor force in half; the bombing had destroyed processing machinery and impaired the distribution system; and because of the bombing, which had prevented the east-west movement of grain during the past winter, western Germany had begun the year with a food shortage.
		The disarmed enemy troops could be given the normal German consumer's ration; therefore, SHAEF had intended to transfer all German troops inside Germany to disarmed enemy status after the surrender, but the legality of this move was in doubt at least until after the Berlin Declaration was signed.
		According to the ECLIPSE plan, the disarmed enemy troops were to be fed, like the DPs, from German sources; but while the DPs were scattered in groups of thousands and could theoretically live off the local economies, the troops were concentrated, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands.
	www.army.mil /cmh/books/wwii/Occ-GY/ch16.htm (9886 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: people//b/bacque.james/ambrose.001
		Bacque, was simple: he changed the designation of the prisoners from "Prisoners of War" (P.O.W.), required by the Geneva Convention to be fed the same rations as American G.I.'s, to "Disarmed Enemy Forces" (D.E.F.), which allowed him to cut their rations to starvation level.
		What happened is simple enough: the Allies could not afford to feed the millions of German prisoners at the same level at which they were able to feed German civilians, not to mention the civilians of the liberated countries of Western Europe, and not to mention as well the displaced persons.
		They did not wish to violate it, so they used the new designation of "Disarmed Enemy Forces." The orders to the field commanders were straighforward: do not feed the DEF's at a higher scale than German civilians.
	nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/people/ftp.py?people//b/bacque.james/ambrose.001 (2675 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Military conscription is a variant, perhaps the most destructive one, of corvée (forced) labour, an institution that has led to millions of overwhelmingly male deaths throughout history.
		As with corvée and imprisonment/incarceration, Gendercide Watch does not consider military conscription in and of itself to be a gendercidal institution.
		The 1.5m-strong Russian armed forces killed 1,270 of their own young men last year according to official figures, though some observers say the number could be five times higher.
	www.lycoszone.com /info/conscription--men.html (490 words)

	The Truth Seeker - War Crimes: USA Part 1
		It was the "terrible Swedish Jew" Eisenhower, whose open hatred of everything German, caused him to promote Operation Keelhaul, at the end of the war, where thousands of anti-Communist fighters, who had surrendered to American forces, were forced at bayonet point, back to the tender mercies of the Communists.
		(The reason this death rate was lower than 3.6% weekly for the longer-term DEFs was simply that the barbaric treatment of the DEFs was cumulative, and that some of the American troops refused to go along with this barbaric treatment.) I recall the winter of 1945, when I was on occupation duty in Japan.
		If you were a young man, with several small children at home, you know how these enemy children played on the minds of decent Americans who knew what their government was doing was wrong.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /print.asp?ID=1419 (2041 words)

	Gendercide Watch: Military Conscription/Impressment
		The 1.5m-strong Russian armed forces killed 1,270 of their own young men last year according to official figures, though some observers say the number could be five times higher.
		The Soldiers' Mothers of Russia was founded by Lyubov Lymar "after the body of her son, Oleg, an army sergeant, was found with his tongue cut off." The organization claimed (in 1992) "40,000 cases each year of murders, maimings and suicides of junior military conscripts.
		According to the armed forces, 7,685 children currently serve in the National Police, 7,551 in the army, 338 in the air force, and eighty-three in the navy, a total of 15,657.
	www.gendercide.org /case_conscription.html (6434 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Documents on the US Occupation of Germany 1945
		Forced repatriation followed conviction.(41) Curtailment of aid to certain classes of displaced persons was finally resorted to in the effort to stem the resurgent tide of plundering.
		The German armed forces on land, at sea and in the air have been completely defeated and have surrendered unconditionally and Germany, which bears responsibility for the war, is no longer capable of resisting the will of the victorious powers.
		The forces, nationals, ships, aircraft, military equipment and other property in Germany or in German control or service or at German disposal, of any other country at war with any of the Allies, will be subject to the provisions of this declaration and of any of the proclamations, orders, ordinances or instructions issued thereunder.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=69515 (10729 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In December 1943 he was appointed Supreme Commander Allied Forces charged with planning and carrying out Allied invasion of France Operation Overlord in June 1944.
		By the end of 1944 Eisenhower was in overall command of forces comprising 4.5 million men and women.
		Eisenhower was named Chief of Staff of U.S. Army in November 1945 and in December 1950 he was named Supreme Commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization and given operational command of NATO in Europe.
	www.freeglossary.com /Dwight_D._Eisenhower (2245 words)

	34th. President Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War.
		In November he was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied (Expeditionary) Force of the North African Theater of Operations through the new operational Headquarters A(E)FHQ.
		Eisenhower nominated at the 1952 Republican National Convention.Eisenhower's presidency was dominated by the Cold War, the prolonged confrontation with the Soviet Union which had begun during Truman's term of office.
	politicalquest.org /index.php/cID/39/cf/president_dwight_david_eisen... (323 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Views From the Top
		The fighting is fierce and we do not know its duration, yet we know the outcome of this battle: The Iraqi regime will be disarmed and removed from power.
		Our forces are delivering food and water to grateful Iraqi citizens in Safwan and Umm Qasr.
		Today's Armed Forces are upholding the finest traditions of our country and of our military.
	www.defendamerica.mil /iraq/usviews032903.html (1067 words)

	The Howard Center: The Religion & Society Report
		It is supposedly policed by a NATO occupation force called KFOR, but this body of 40,000 troops apparently cannot keep the peace or modify the vindictive aggressiveness of the Kosovo Liberation Army, into whose hands it has effectively delivered Kosovo.
		This was the result of the decision made at Potsdam to "transfer populations." According to Bacque’s figures, approximately 900,000 German prisoners of war, reduced to the status of "disarmed enemy forces" and deprived of the protection of the Geneva Convention, died from deliberate maltreatment and starvation in American and French hands.
		The legal system is such that the threat of lawsuits suffices to intimidate companies, in effect forcing them to comply with rules voted by no legislature and approved by no referendum or face extinction.
	www.profam.org /pub/rs/rs_1705.htm (4939 words)

	Afghan Forces Thwart IED Attack, Detain Two Suspects
		(AFPS) Afghan National Police forces, acting on a tip that individuals were planning attacks against Afghan and U.S. forces in the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, area, found an improvised explosive device along a well-traveled road Monday, military officials reported.
		Afghan National Police forces also detained two men with a large amount of money, small arms and documents outlining enemy activity near Ghazni on Tuesday, November 8.
		Afghan army and police forces are a critical step in the government of Afghanistan's march toward a safe and secure future."
	nyjtimes.com /Stories/2005/AfghanForcesThwartIEDs.htm (237 words)

	USATODAY.com - Special operations forces fight for strategic bases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Australians disarmed their foes and moved on across the desert, leaving the Iraqis to be taken prisoner by other units.
		The coalition forces are said to have infiltrated Iraq through the western desert last Thursday.
		In addition to the effort to take the air bases, coalition forces are hunting for banned weapons including Scud missiles and chemical, biological or nuclear materials in the western desert.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-03-25-westernfront-usat_x.htm (610 words)

	Xlibris.Com Bookstore
		Nothing in it should be taken as earnest and truthful as a hollywoodian docudrama because much of it is composed from a German point of view and no German writer after Goethe is a trustworthy reporter of the German soul, or psyche, or stool, and their wars and history.
		Late in April 1945 Wolfgang, the storyteller, became simply a piece of disarmed enemy forces.
		No German soldiers taken after March ‘45 became legally Prisoners of War and treated as such, but were Disarmed Enemy Forces to whom the International Red Cross had no access and who were treated accordingly.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=11160 (1355 words)

	The Howard Center: The Religion & Society Report
		Are there threats, expressed or implied, to force the Germans once again to attempt to atone for the sins of their fathers?
		Shall Japan be forced to compensate thousands of Korean women pressed into military brothels, and yet have no claim against the United States for the fiery deaths of hundreds of thousands of its own civilians?
		War is war, of course, and atomic raids are not the same as gas chambers in concentration camps.
	www.profam.org /pub/rs/rs_1702.htm (4734 words)

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		Forced to choose from among several Allied war propaganda lies, he chose to defend the fire lie instead of the boiling water, gassing, or electrocution lies.
		There are forces that control all that happens in this world, and there is an unseen "shadow government." It uses the masses or "sheep" as cannon fodder during war, and to gain sympathy and financial aid.
		The British also alleged that the German forces were operating a “Corpse Factory,” in which they boiled down the bodies of their own dead in order to obtain glycerine and other commodities, a calculated insult to the honor of the German Army.
	www.israelect.com /reference/WillieMartin/HOLOHOAX.htm (19663 words)

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		"Disarmed Enemy Forces," possibly in order to negate the Geneva convention, were held in work
		The normal rules governing humane treatment of captured enemy forces were ignored.
		were redefined as "disarmed enemy forces," this was completely ignored.
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	Stephen Ambrose: A Review of 'Other Losses'
		Bacque, was simple: he changed the designation of the prisoners from "Prisoners of War" (P.O.W.), required by the Geneva Convention to be fed the same rations as American G.I.'s, to "Disarmed Enemy Forces" (D.E.F.), which allowed him to cut their rations to starvation level.
		What happened is simple enough: the Allies could not afford to feed the millions of German prisoners at the same level at which they were able to feed German civilians, not to mention the civilians of the liberated countries of Western Europe, and not to mention as well the displaced persons.
		They did not wish to violate it, so they used the new designation of "Disarmed Enemy Forces." The orders to the field commanders were straighforward: do not feed the DEF's at a higher scale than German civilians.
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/b/bacque-james/ambrose-001.html (2729 words)

	The Australian Waffen SS Handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Many of Hitler`s enemies were incarcerated and due to the threat to Germany 25,000 SA men and 15,000 SS were appointed to the Auxiliary Police.
		These camps were not open to inspection by any outside authority and DEF’s were denied mail and not allowed communication with anyone outside of the camps (thus denying their families the knowledge if they were alive or dead).
		It is reported that soviet forces tied German women to tanks and other vehicles to avoid the German anti tank weapons, believing (correctly) Germans would not fire on their own citizens.
	www.angelfire.com /sd/waffenss/website/handbuch.html (7189 words)

	Backtalk!
		Since the SS constituted 25 percent of the German Army that was quite a stretch.
		What many miss is that Eisenhower most assuredly violated the Geneva Convention when he decided to call, well after the war, regular German soldiers as "disarmed enemy forces" (DEFs).
		Their easy victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan has convinced them more than ever that they and their military forces are invincible.
	www.antiwar.com /letters/letters202.html (1037 words)

	The Story of Alfred Porsche
		Their mission proved unsuccessful, however, and the Russians forced their retreat to a place in eastern Austria.
		When the German army ran out of tanks in 1945, Alfred was assigned to the infantry and sent to the Russian front where, greatly outnumbered and outgunned, all but fifteen of his company were killed.
		Rather than being classifed as a "prisoner of war," however, Alfred was deemed "disarmed enemy forces." Unfortunately, the humane protocols of the Geneva Convention did not apply to individuals in the latter category.
	www.webspawner.com /users/alfredporsche/index.html (879 words)

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		The portion of this force that could be assigned to the European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, was not large enough to handle the hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war captured in the European theater in 1944 and 1945.
		The use of combat troops to guard and escort enemy prisoners of war was sanctioned, of necessity, in situations in which the captures were en masse.
		The total number of enemy prisoners of war captured on all fronts in North Africa from 20 March to 14 April 1943 was estimated to be 28,000 (6,000 Germans and 22,000 Italians).
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/EPWs/EPWs.htm (11998 words)

	Eisenhower's Holocaust
		The Swiss Red Cross was not to inspect the camps, for under the DEF classification, they had no such authority or jurisdiction.
		Months after the war was officially over, Eisenhower's special German DEF camps were still in operation forcing the men into confinement, but denying that they were prisoners.
		In 1945, Brech was an 18 year old Private First Class in Company C of the 14th Infantry, assigned as a guard and interpreter at the Eisenhower Death Camp at Andernach, along the Rhine River.
	www.rense.com /general19/ei.htm (1889 words)

	Col. Joachim Peiper testifies before the American Military Tribunal at Dachau in the Malmedy Massacre proceeding
		As in the Nuremberg IMT and the other Dachau proceedings, the accused were charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes, as well as with specific incidents of murder, so Freimuth's statement was relevant to the case, even after he was no longer among the accused himself.
		After being held in prison for an average of five months, the SS Malmedy veterans were charged as war criminals on April 11, 1946, a little over a month before their case before the American military tribunal was set to begin.
		The Home Guard consisted of young boys and old men who were forced into service in the last desperate days of the war to defend their cities and towns.
	scrapbookpages.com /DachauScrapbook/DachauTrials/MalmedyMassacre03.html (2358 words)

	Is the Abuse of POW's Under American Control Unprecedented?
		Months ahead of the German surrender they came up with a new legal designation for POWs as “Disarmed Enemy Forces” (DEFs), so the captors would not to be bound by the strict rules of the Geneva Convention protection rights for POWs.
		The abuse of POWs in Baghdad and the legal no man’s land constructed for the Guantanamo “enemy combatants” is nothing new, then, in the annals of American warfare.
		German “DEFs” during World War II were only left in such legal limbo for a few chaotic postwar weeks, before the vast majority of them were released and sent home.
	hnn.us /articles/5106.html (938 words)

	Interview: Walter Krupinski
		To be quite honest, the worst treatment I ever saw taken against a downed airman was not allowing him to use the latrine because the authorities were afraid to let him out of their sight.
		However, before I could go to basic training, I was forced to spend the mandatory four months of service with the labor corps.
		Suddenly, we were no longer prisoners of war, but were classified "disarmed enemy forces," undeserving of treatment given to captured soldiers.
	www.tarrif.net /wwii/interviews/lothar_seifert.htm (3776 words)

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