Hello there,
I happen to be German and live near Munich, however was born after the war. And I happen to have that book and have quickly gone over it. What I can tell you is the following:
My mother and father, who have been in the war as teenagers, and others here from that time, all tell that food was available in sufficient quantities during the war, and that starvation began with the end of the war. - I'd guess because the old system was broken and a new one was not installed yet.
There recently was a TV documentation here showing pictures and scenes about the German POWs at the river Rhein side. There must have been many, many thousands. The scenes showed them crowded on fields without tents, nothing to shelter them from rain and weather, hedged in with fences, guarded by machine gunners. The docu said that many died because of malnutrition.
Alltogether I am afraid that really thousands of POWs have died after the liberation. My personal opinion only is, that it must not necessarily have been intentious, as James Bacque implies, but that to provide food and shelter was very difficult and could not be organized and managed.
Greetings,
Roland Schoeffel
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