Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Post-War Apology and�Reconciliation � News � Talonbooks

Post-War Apology and�Reconciliation � News � Talonbooks:

retired officer in the US army has apologized to the German army for the mass deaths of German prisoners in US army camps after World War Two. Following extensive private investigations in the US and Germany, Merrit P. Drucker (retired) has sent an e-mail to Lt. Col. Max Klaar, Bundeswehr (retired), head of the Verband der deutscher Soldaten (German Veterans’ Association), regretting the lethal conditions in the US camps where some 750,000 Germans died while they were denied available food and shelter.

Drucker has also formed a committee of six people, in Germany, the UK, Canada and the US to pursue further investigations and make amends by way of apologies to the families of the dead, and veterans’ institutions.

Drucker’s first e-mail letter has been posted on the veterans’ website where there is also a questionnaire asking for details of prisoners’ internment.......
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