Did the Allies Starve Millions of Germans? |As soon as the
Second World War ended in 1945, Canada and the United States
began shipping food to the hundreds of millions of people who
were facing starvation as a result of the war. Unprecedented in
world history, this massive program fulfilled the highest ideals
for which the Western Allies had fought. Their generosity seemed
to have no limit. They fed former enemies -- Italy and Japan --
as well as a new enemy, the Soviet Union. Only Germany was left
out. It is well known in the West that the Allies hanged Nazis
for crimes -- the murder of Jews, the brutal mass expulsions,
the deadly forced-labour camps, the starvation of entire
nations. What is not generally known is that these occupying
armies carved off 25 percent of Germany's most fertile land and
placed it under Russian and Polish control, forcibly expelling
about 16 million people into what remained. It has also been
forgotten -- or hidden -- that the Allies forbade emigration and
kept millions of prisone