Canadian novelist James Bacque has alleged that nearly one million German prisoners of war, redesignated by U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower as "Disarmed Enemy Forces" in order to avoid recognition under the third Geneva Convention, died of starvation or exposure while held in post-war Western internment camps.Bacque charges that hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war (POWs) who entered the camps were not transferred out, so they must have died. He also points to a German report recording the death of 1.4 million German POWs, and Soviet data accounting for only 450,600 of these deaths. (The remainder, he says, must then have died in Western camps.) In his book Other Losses, Bacque recounts interviews with people who claimed to have witnessed trucks full of dead leaving the camps each day, and civilian women who say they were fired upon while trying to throw bread over the camp fence. The fact that Red Cross inspectors were banned, Red Cross food aid was returned, building of shelters was forbidden and soldiers were kept on short rations are seen by Bacque as a "method of the genocide."Another critic of Eisenhower's policy in Germany was senator Homer E. Capehart.