Rheinwiesenlager

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The Rheinwiesenlager (Rhine meadow camps) were transit camps for millions of German POWs after World War II. A few thousand German POWs died from starvation, dehydration and exposure to the weather elements.

Official United States statistics were just over 3,000 and a German commission found 4,532. R. J. Rummel calculates a most probable figure of 6,000. Extremely high figures of up to a million are sometimes quoted, for instance, by James Bacque, but these seem not to be based on any hard evidence, and are generally regarded as latter-day propaganda.

[edit] See also

• Eisenhower and German POWs
• Other Losses Prima Publishing; ISBN 1-55168-191-9

[edit] External links

• http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP13.HTM
• http://www.jamesbacque.com/books.html