Starvation of Germany after World War II

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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Hold up.

Are you saying that it's normal for civilians to suffer badly during wartime?

Learn something new everyday

[–]Oyveygoyim 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's not what it's saying. First off this is after the war ended. These were the real death camps where between usa and Russia far more Germans died in death camps than even the fake 6 million jews. They purposely starved them to death while the Soviets raped millions of German women and little girls.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's not what the link says at all.

[–]Oyveygoyim 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You sure?

Normal adult Germans in the American and British Zones were rationed only 1,550 calories per day. The average official calorie ration for Germans in the French Zone was only 1,400 per day. The actual calories received in the American, British and French Zones were often far less than these official amounts, and it was well known that these official ration amounts were not sufficient to maintain a healthy population. Herbert Hoover told President Truman that “the 1,550 ration is wholly incapable of supporting health.”[2] Hoover estimated that 2,200 calories per day “is a minimum in a nation for healthy human beings.”[3]

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We were evil winners...

We forced German citizens to work in work camps. We asserted collective punishment on the citizens for 'allowing' the Nazis to do what they did. We spent many years propagandizing them, telling them we were the good guys, they were the bad, and they hold personal responsibility, by controlling hundreds of newspapers, radio stations and tv news outlets. We brain washed them.