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Gruesome Harvest - Paperback
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by Ralph Franklin Keeling (Author)
Gruesome Harvest: The Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany is a 1947 account by Ralph Franklin Keeling, an American writer associated with the Institute of American Economics in Chicago. Published while the Allied occupation of Germany was still under way, it was among the earliest books in the United States to document and criticize the treatment of the German civilian population after the formal end of hostilities in Europe.
Drawing on contemporary reports, Keeling describes the mass expulsion of Germans from territories east of the Oder-Neisse line and from other parts of Eastern Europe, the overcrowding of the remaining German territory, food shortages and disease, the dismantling of industry, the use of German labor, and the broader social and economic consequences of the occupation policies agreed at Yalta and Potsdam. He contrasts the official statements that it was not the purpose of the Allies to destroy the German people with the conditions that followed, and he presents the postwar measures as a continuation of the war by other means. The book is organized around themes of wartime devastation, overcrowding, the attack on labor and capital, and the demographic effects of the settlement.
Sovereign Archive Publishing is proud to offer this contemporary American critique of the postwar settlement in Germany. Gruesome Harvest remains essential reading for those curious in an eyewitness account of the expulsion of German populations, Allied occupation policy, and the early literature of the “peace” of 1945–1947.
Number of Pages: 152
Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 22, 2004