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NEVER before in the whole history of mankind could the people of Europe have had to endure such appalling sufferings as have befallen the occupied countries during the past three years. Poland, Belgium and Greece have suffered especially severely, but the other occupied countries only little less. Even the official rations are inadequate, often supplying only about half to two thirds our standard requirements of calories, and in the case of Jews even less. But the official rations are by no means always forthcoming and the position would be desperate but for the operations of what the Germans call the ‘black market’—mainly a device for hoodwinking them. Recent refugees bring acounts of widespread and growing malnutrition and deficiency diseases, children crippled by lack of essential foods, adults suffering from acute forms of tuberculosis, widespread malaria, typhus and other diseases : almost worse still, the populations crushed and made listless by hunger, and rapidly sinking to a condition when they can no longer take much part in rebuilding their shattered' lives.
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RUSSELL, J. RESTARTING AGRICULTURE IN DEVASTATED EUROPE*. Nature 151, 433–438 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151433a0
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