OT "They've got us surrounded..."

Like Bush II, Eisenhower deliberated created a new category of prisoners called Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF),
so he wouldn’t be bound by the Geneva Convention regarding treatment of Prisoners of War (POWs).

Eisenhower denied the Red Cross access to POW camps, as well as prohibiting them from supplying German prisoners food.
The British, US and French military also used German POWs as slave labor, despite formal Red Cross protests that this, too, violated the Geneva Convention.

Of course, that was illegal under International law, so he issued an order on March 10, 1945
and verified by his initials on a cable of that date, that German Prisoners of War be predesignated as "Disarmed Enemy Forces"
called in these reports as DEF.

He ordered that these Germans did not fall under the Geneva Rules, and were not to be fed or given any water or medical attention.
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.

As soon as the war was over, General George Patton simply turned his prisoners loose to fend for themselves and find their way home as best they could.

Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps.

Knowing Patton as we do from history, we know that these orders were largely ignored,

and it may well be that Patton's untimely and curious death may have been a result of what he knew about these wretched Eisenhower DEF camps.

What do think of the idea that is the main reason for the Normandy invasion? To meet the Russians at Berlin. Germany was already toast.

Yep and then Eisenhower murdered them all .....