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Food, Weapon of Conquest

Stuart Legg, 1941, 22 min

This 1940s wartime newsreel shows the food shortage in Nazi-occupied countries that have been forced to hand over their farm ...
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This 1940s wartime newsreel shows the food shortage in Nazi-occupied countries that have been forced to hand over their farm produce to Germany, leaving their own populations hungry. Part of the Canada Carries On series.
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Food, Weapon of Conquest

The Nazi-occupied countries have been forced to hand over their farm produce to Germany, leaving their own populations without food. The Western world must now not only feed its own overseas armies, but must also meet the challenge of feeding hundreds of millions in continental Europe and Asia during the postwar years.
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