Food, Weapon of Conquest

Collaborators : Legg, Stuart | National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa)

Food supply -- Government policy -- Asia.Food supply -- Government policy -- Europe.Food supply -- Europe.Reconstruction (1939-1951)Food and Food Industries -- Food Shortages, Hunger and Famine.Food and Food Industries -- World War II.Foreign Countries -- Asia.Foreign Countries -- Europe.Foreign Countries -- World War II.War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films -- Allied Countries.War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films -- Economic Conditions and Shortages.Afficher 6 supplémentaires

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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