pow cannibalism

From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Human Steak?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 14:23:32 GMT

In article <209mogINN9b7@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>This particular story may very well be an UL, but I've read accounts
>in serious history books (e.g., Robert Leckie's "Delivered from Evil")
>about how human flesh was sold openly in the markets during the seige
>of Leningrad in WWII.  Survivors reported finding corpses with the
>fleshy parts hacked off, mysterious disappearances of children, etc.
>I would expect that at least some of the survivors were telling rumors
>rather than facts, but I think that professional historians would have
>considered this too and decided that there was sufficient evidence that
>this really did happen before publishing it as fact.

On the A&E Biography of George Bush (shown last night), while they were
discussing how he had to bail out near a Japanese-held island, they had
an interview of a former Japanese officer (or something) who evidentally was 
there at the time (1945). The officer said that had Bush been captured, he
would have been eaten because a group of the officers holding the island
thought that eating one's enemies would give them more courage and 
strength. 

	John "I don't think that this is covered in the Geneva Convention"
			Switzer 

January 25, 1995