Other Losses is a 1989 book by Canadian writer James Bacque, in which Bacque alleges that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths by starvation or exposure of around a million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps briefly after the Second World War.
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Using data from U.S. Army records, a number of historians, including Niall Ferguson, maintain that this is a gross overestimation.
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Senator Kenneth S. Wherry later complained about the thousands upon thousands of tons of rations spoiling amid a starving population.
In his 1989 book Other Losses, James Bacque claimed that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower deliberately caused the death of 790,000 German captives in internment camps through disease, starvation and cold from 1944 to 1949.