Throughout all of 1945 the U.S. forces of occupation ensured that no international aid reached ethnic Germans.[31] It was directed that all relief went to non-German displaced persons, liberated Allied POWs, and concentration camp inmates.[31] During 1945 it was estimated that the average German civilian in the US and UK occupation zones received 1200 calories a day.[31] Meanwhile, non-German displaced persons were receiving 2300 calories through emergency food imports and Red Cross help.[31] In early October 1945 the UK government privately acknowledged in a cabinet meeting that German civilian adult death rates had risen to 4 times the pre-war levels and death rates amongst the German children had risen by 10 times the pre-war levels.[31] The German Red Cross was dissolved, and the International Red Cross and the few other allowed international relief agencies were kept from helping Germans through strict controls on supplies and travel.[31] The few agencies permitted to help Germans, such as the indigenous Caritasverband, were not allowed to use imported supplies.