Doubt all you like, karrie, but some people have no clue. By the way, karrie when there are food shortages one simply excepts that as this is how it is-perhaps if a torturer could feel the pain he would have difficulty inflicting it. Food shortages vary, If in the country food id easier to obtain than in the city. Nettles become spinach, flowers, cherry stems become teas, lard is precious and so is flour, potatoes-Ask the Cree that a Mounty found in the middle of winter --- 27 people in a teepee were boiling a hoof -perhaps if the boys in Ottawa gained some experience conditions may have been better. General
Lucius Clay, then Deputy to General Eisenhower, stated:
“I feel that the Germans should suffer from hunger and from cold as I believe such suffering is necessary to make them realize the consequences of a war which they caused.
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During 1945 it was estimated that the average German civilian in the U.S. and the United Kingdom occupation zones received 1,200 calories a day.
[14] Meanwhile non-German
Displaced Persons were receiving 2,300 calories through emergency food imports and Red Cross help.
[15] In early October 1945 the UK government privately acknowledged in a cabinet meeting that German civilian adult death rates had risen to four times the pre-war levels and death rates amongst the German children had risen by 10 times the pre-war levels. During 1946 the average German adult received less than 1,500 calories a day
In March 1947 4,000,000 Germans were being used as forced labor
[28]. General Eisenhower transferred several hundred thousands of POWs to the Soviets
[29] which used them, alongside Soviet captured POWs and German civilians, as forced laborers (See also
Forced labor of Germans in the ..
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