United States:
"Deliberate policy of mass starvation"
Senator Homer E. Capeheart of Indiana in an address before the United
States Senate on February 5, 1946.
"The fact can no longer be suppressed, namely, the fact that it has
been and continues to be, the deliberate policy of a confidential and
conspirational clique within the policy-making circles of this government
to draw and quarter a nation now reduced to abject misery.
In this process this clique, like a pack of hyenas struggling over
the bloody entrails of a corpse, and inspired by a sadistic and fanatical
hatred, are determined to destroy the German nation and the German people,
no matter what the consequences.
At Potsdam the representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom,
and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics solemnly signed the following
declaration of principles and purposes:
"It is not the intention of the Allies to destroy or enslave the
German people."
Mr. President, the cynical and savage repudiation of these solemn
declarations which has resulted in a major catastrophe, cannot be explained
in terms of ignorance or incompetence. This repudiation, not only of
the Potsdam Declaration, but also of every law of God and men, has been
deliberately engineered with such a malevolent cunning, and with such
diabolical skill, that the American people themselves have been caught
in an international death trap.
For nine months now this administration has been carrying on a deliberate
policy of mass starvation without any distinction between the innocent
and the helpless and guilty alike.
The first issue has been and continues to be purely humanitarian.
This vicious clique within this administration that has been responsible
for the policies and practices which have made a madhouse of central
Europe has not only betrayed our American principles, but they have
betrayed the Gis who have suffered and died, and they continue to betray
the American Gis who have to continue their dirty work for them.
The second issue that is involved is the effect this tragedy in Germany
has already has already had on the other European countries. Those who
have been responsible for this deliberate destruction of the German
state and this criminal mass starvation of the German people have been
so zealous in their hatred that all other interests and concerns have
been subordinated to this one obsession of revenge. In order to accomplish
this it mattered not if the liberated countries in Europe suffered and
starved. To this point this clique of conspirators have addressed themselves:
"Germany is to be destroyed. What happens to other countries of Europe
in the process is of secondary importance."
(Ralph Franklin Keeling, Gruesome Harvest: The Allies Postwar
War Against the German People, Institute of American Economics
(Chicago) 1947, p. 75-76)
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