More than nine million German soldiers and civilians died as a result of the policies pursued by the allies in the five years after World War II, deaths that are still ignored, if not denied, by Western governments. Crime and forgiveness ?? Is an extraordinary story of what happened to these people and why. James Bacque has had access to the KGB files recently opened in Moscow, as well as to the declassified information of the Hoover Institution, and has been able to find evidence of massive annihilation of prisoners both on the road and in allied prison camps . But this book also speaks of the extraordinary efforts made by a group of Western leaders who helped the Germans in a food assistance program that saved millions of lives around the world during the three years of famine. Never before has a revenge been known How is it going. Never before has so much compassion been shown.