German PoWs, 1945-1948

[the_historian]

He might have shot Bacques down, but he still wasn't entirely impartial himself. He mentions Germans in Britain being 'slave labourers' (they weren't), and that prisoners died in those camps because the rest of the allies 'weren't ready to receive them as slave labourers'. At no point did I see proof of either statement on offer.
One of the writers quoted- SP Mackenzie- wrote an article called The Treatment of Prisoners of War in Twentieth Century Economies. It's worth getting if you can access JSTOR.