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	CalendarHome.com - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eisenhower was baptized, confirmed, and became a communicant in the Presbyterian church in a single ceremony on February 1, 1953, just 12 days after his first inauguration.
		Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the Truman administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption." Eisenhower promised to go to Korea himself and end the war and maintain both a strong NATO abroad against Communism and a corruption-free frugal administration at home.
		Eisenhower was extremely popular, winning his second term in 1956 with 457 of 531 votes in the Electoral College, and 57.6% of the popular vote.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Dwight_D._Eisenhower (5618 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eisenhower was born in Denison Texas the third of seven sons born David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover.
		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.
		Eisenhower was also criticized for not taking public stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy 's anti-communist campaigns although he privately hated for his attacks on his friend and War II colleague General George Marshall who had been Secretary of State Truman.
	www.freeglossary.com /Dwight_D._Eisenhower (2245 words)

	Stephen Ambrose
		He was the founder of the Eisenhower Center[?] and President of the National D-Day Museum[?] in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Eisenhower chose Ambrose as his biographer after admiring his work on Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, which was based on his doctoral dissertation.
		Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (1967)
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stephen_Ambrose.html (524 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, the third of seven sons born to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover, and their only child born in Texas.
		Eisenhower was named Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in November 1945, and in December 1950 was named Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.
		Eisenhower had been impressed during the war with the German Autobahn system, and also recalled his own involvement in a military convoy in 1919 that took 62 days to cross the U.S. Another achievement was a 20% increase in family income during his presidency, of which he was very proud.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower (4540 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower : Dwight David Eisenhower
		Eisenhower is also strongly criticized for not taking a public stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy, although he privately hated him, particularly for McCarthy's attack on his friend and World War II colleague, Secretary of State General George Marshall.
		Eisenhower had been impressed during the war with the German Autobahns and also recalled his own involvement in a military convoy in 1919 that took 62 days to cross the United States.
		Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, as the third of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower's seven sons.
	www.wordlookup.net /dw/dwight-david-eisenhower.html (2024 words)

	Europe
		General Eisenhower was in his own words on a "crusade in Europe".
		An report, of the 11 to 12 million German prisoners of war in 20 custody states, is a publication made by the "scientific commission for the documentation of the destiny of the German prisoners of the second World War".
		On 8-21-1945 the ICRC wrote a memorandum, that the life of 200.000 German POW's in French custody where immediately endangered, 2000 would hardly recover, 2000 could take no food and had to be fed artificially and 600.000 men had only inadequate accommodations what dangers their life in the approaching winter.
	home.arcor.de /kriegsgefangene/usa/europe.html (700 words)

	Ike - Databank
		Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, the third of seven sons born to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover, and their only child born in Texas as well.
		Eisenhower viewed the highway system as essential to American safety during the Cold War; a means of quickly moving thousands of people out of cities or troops across the country was key in an era of nuclear paranoia and Soviet Union blitzkrieg invasion scenarios imagined by military strategists.
		Eisenhower is purported to have said that his September 1953 appointment of California Governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States was "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made".
	www.notd-aftermath.com /databank/index.php?title=Ike (4384 words)

	German POWs in Allied Hands - World War II Multimedia Database
		German POWs had medical care, shelter, and were paid wages for their labor, although very low ones.
		German POWs often remained defiant Nazis in captivity, but others were grateful for a hot meal and a warm place to sleep after the horrors of modern warfare.
		German POW’s captured in campaigns in Western Europe, were held in Allied POW camps.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/germanpow.htm (1172 words)

	Jan 96: letters
		German POWs were then conveniently re-classified to DEF (disarmed enemy forces) status (as opposed to POW status) to keep the Red Cross and other “busybodies” out of the picture and away from the crime scene, and to pacify officers under Eisenhower who were feeling queasy about such egregious violations of the Geneva Conventions.
		The real Nazis were, of course, installed as officials of the post-war German government, brought to the U.S. for weapons development, employed as consultants to U.S. spooks for their anti-Communist “expertise,” and (in the case of the most odiously famous ones) spirited away to new lives in South America.
		The Germans themselves in 1950 claimed that a grand total of 100,000 of their forces were missing from the Western front, including those missing in action.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/jan96letters.htm (1527 words)

	Eisenhower and German POWs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eisenhower was not a Hitler, he did not run death camps, German prisoners did not die by the hundreds of thousands, there was a severe food shortage in 1945, there was nothing sinister or secret about the "disarmed enemy forces" designation or about the column "other losses." Mr.
		US and German sources estimate the number of German POWs who died in captivity at between 56,000 or 78,000 or about one percent of all German prisoners which is roughly the same as the percentage of American POWs who died in German captivity.
		Eisenhower, having seen the death camps, was repulsed by the horrors of the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and had little patience with those who would extend military courtesy to officers of this regime, no matter what their knowledge of the atrocities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eisenhower_and_German_POWs (2058 words)

	U.S. (and French) abuse of German PoWs, 1945-1948
		In part, this was to encourage other Germans to surrender (though few did voluntarily until the last weeks of the war), in part to encourage the German military to treat Western PoWs decently (as they did for the most part).
		Hundreds of thousands of PoWs were kept for many weeks out in the open, with no shelter apart from what they might dig in the ground, and nothing to sit or lie on (above the mud and puddles) apart from their own helmets and greatcoats.
		Eisenhower was under careful supervision by both the US and British governments, and could not have carried out a murderous conspiracy without their knowledge.
	www.cyberussr.com /hcunn/for/us-germany-pow.html (2463 words)

	0-8071-1942-3 cloth - Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment, Edited by Günter Bischof and Stephen E. Ambrose - History - ...
		Four of the essays address Eisenhower historiography and his role as military commander, two concern his presidential domestic policies, and the remainder represent an assortment of ongoing research into select areas of his foreign policy by a younger generation of scholars, demonstrating how much the evaluation of Eisenhower’s handling of foreign affairs remains in ferment.
		As Bischof and Ambrose state in their Introduction, Eisenhower played a central role for so long and so crucial a period in twentieth-century history that his impact, contributions, successes, and failures will be subject to reinterpretation and debate for as long as Western civilization lasts.
		Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956 by Cole C. Kingseed
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	James Bacque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bacque's critics note many of the German soldiers were sick and wounded at the time of their surrender, and say his work does not place the plight of the German prisoners within the context of the grim situation in Western Europe in 1945 and 1946.
		Stephen Ambrose, the editor of the volume, acknowledged that Bacque's work was significant in that it had drawn attention to the ill-treatment of German POWs in Allied captivity.
		Bacque's historical works are sometimes defended, not so much on their factual accuracy, but because they have spurred further research into the important question of the treatment of German POWs and German civilians at the end of the Second World War, a topic about which English-speaking historians have shown comparatively little interest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Bacque (712 words)

	pows - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Prisoners of War (POWs), in international law, term used to designate incarcerated members of the armed forces of an enemy, or noncombatants who...
		Allegations made by Canadian novelist James Bacque were that nearly one million German prisoners of war, that Dwight Eisenhower redesignated as Disarmed Enemy Forces in order to avoid having to obey...
		The forgetten files of Egyptian POWs in 1956 and 1967...
	encarta.msn.com /pows.html (223 words)

	D-Day June 6, 1944
		General Eisenhower's determination that operation OVERLORD (the invasion of France) would bring a quick end to the war is obvious in this message to the troops of the Allied Expeditionary Forces on June 6, 1944, the morning of the invasion.
		German POWs rest in a barb-wired enclosure after being interrogated by American soldiers; on Utah Beach, June 6, 1944.
		Germans, former "Harrenvolk" come over the crest of a hill with their hands over their heads in surrender, and are rounded up by American soldiers, one of whom can be seen at the extreme right.
	www.eisenhower.archives.gov /dl/dday/ddaypage.html (1691 words)

	Eisenhower's Starvation Order
		Eisenhower's order was also posted in English, German and Polish on the bulletin board of Military Government Headquarters in Bavaria, signed by the Chief of Staff of the Military Governor of Bavaria.
		The memorial to her in nearby Buedesheim, written by one of her chidren, reads: "On the 31st of July 1945, my mother was suddenly and unexpectedly torn from me because of her good deed toward the imprisoned soldiers." The entry in the Catholic church register says simply: "A tragic demise, shot in Dietersheim on 31.07.1945.
		was watching as a German woman with her two children came towards an American guard in the camp at Bad Kreuznach, carrying a wine bottle.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /ike.htm (759 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower
		EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. After rising to distinction in the U.S. Army, Eisenhower was elected the 34th president.
		Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story of the War: The Complete Report by the Supreme Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on the War in Europe from the Day of Invasion to the Day of Victory.
		At Ease with Marshall and Churchhill: Eisenhower, pp 85-97.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/great/eisen99.htm (2449 words)

	War Crimes Enclosure No. 1 - the prison camp for German war criminals at Dachau
		The only good German was a traitor to his country; the German SS soldiers imprisoned at Dachau had volunteered to fight for their country; therefore they were war criminals and did not deserve to be treated as POWs under the Geneva Convention of 1929.
		Soon after their arrival, the German POWs were taken to see the Dachau gas chamber and the crematorium where wax dummies had replaced the bodies that were found by the liberators.
		The German prisoners at Lambach POW camp in Austria were given a helmet full of dried peas that they were supposed to chew and then wash down with the one cup of water they were given.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /dachauscrapbook/NaziPrison.html (6668 words)

	History of Gotha
		Eisenhower mentioned Gotha in his book "Crusade in Europe," as the nearest city to the "horror camp" at Ohrdruf-Nord, the first concentration camp to be discovered in Germany by American soldiers on April 4, 1945, but he failed to mention his own notorious POW camp located near Gotha.
		Eisenhower signed this order before he had even seen the horrors of the concentration camps, which so affected him.
		After 1947, most of the records of the POW camps were destroyed by the U.S. government, according to James Bacque, the author of a book entitled "Other Losses." Bacque wrote that the Germans claimed that 1,700,000 soldiers, who were alive at the end of the war and had surrendered to the Allies, never returned home.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /EasternGermany/Gotha (725 words)

	HNN Debate: Was Ike Responsible for the Deaths of Hundreds of Thousands of German POW's? Pro and Con
		In it, the Germans are told that anyone who gathers together food for the purpose of taking it to the prisoner of war camps was liable to be shot.
		There was never any serious disagreement that the German POWs were treated badly by the U.S. Army and suffered egregiously in these camps in the first weeks after the end of the war.
		Bacque's very odd notion that Eisenhower and the German POWs should have been "withdrawn" by Dr. Ambrose suggests that he does not understand the nature of academic discourse where ideas are contested and refuted with persuasive evidence in a perpetual cycle.
	hnn.us /articles/1266.html (3887 words)

	They Were Abandoned
		The remaining 21,000 Americans prisoners in German camps taken over by the Russians were abandoned to the Russians.
		In Senate and House hearings in 1992 and 1996, he explained how Eisenhower made the decision to leave the missing American POWs behind after he, Corso, had explained to Eisenhower that thousands were missing, that US intelligence knew they had been shipped to Russia and China, and that achieving their return would be difficult.
		Moreover, government efforts to lie about those abandoned, hide information, sweep live sightings of POWs under the rug, and order people who knew what happened to remain silent have been legion and personally experienced and documented by nearly every investigative reporter who became interested in the POW issue.
	vetstribute.com /thelonggoodbye/abandoned.htm (1094 words)

	Ambrose, Stephen Criticism and Essays
		Eisenhower and the German POWs, co-edited with Gunter Bischof, cites abundant historical evidence to refute the assertions of author James Bacque that President Eisenhower was responsible for the deaths of perhaps one million German POWs in the waning days of World War II.
		Ambrose portrays Eisenhower as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, a man born to lead and a chief executive who, contrary to some contemporary opinions, held his hand firmly at the helm throughout his two terms in office.
		While researching the Eisenhower administration, Ambrose also became fascinated with one of the most villified political figures in American history—Richard Nixon, who served as Eisenhower's vice-president before ascending to the presidency himself.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/ambrose-stephen (1484 words)

	POWs HELD IN USSR
		American POWs and MIAs from World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War were sent to the USSR, where they were imprisoned.
		The man revealed that he had discussed the matter with Eisenhower himself, and it was concluded that nothing short of a war could retrieve the men from their captivity.
		They had supposedly been “liberated” by Soviet forces and were sent off into the gulags with German POWs, never to be heard from again.
	www.americanfreepress.net /html/pows_held_in_ussr.html (1125 words)

	James Bacque
		James Bacque is the author of two books accusing then-General Dwight Eisenhower of allowing the starvation of hundreds of thousands of German POWs and approximately ten million German civilians (see Eisenhower and German POWs).
		James Bacque claims massive starvation was a direct result of the policies of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, which ruled as exclusive Military Occupation Government over the partitioned German lands since the surrender of Deutsches Reich[?] under Karl Doenitz on May 8, 1945 till 1949.
		Bacque's figures have been questioned by critics and his books attacked as sympathetic to the Nazis.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/James_Bacque.html (129 words)

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		Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood.
		Brickner M.D., Richard M. “A Neuropsychiatric View of German Culture and the Treatment of Germany.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, reprinted through the National Committee for Mental Hygiene 98: 3 (September 1943): 281-93.
		Hopf, Rudolf, German Camp Leader, and Ulrich Mueller-Frank, German Camp Adjutant, Camp Atterbury, IN to the PMGO Washington D.C. 7 November 1945.
	www.appstate.edu /~hudnallac/POW_references.htm (1424 words)

	USATODAY.com - On the Ambrose bookshelf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood, 1992.
		Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952, 1983.
		Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe, 1967.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2002-10-13-ambrose-bookshelf_x.htm (353 words)

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