Note: Food relief shipments to Germany were prohibited by the Allies until December 1945, since "they might tend to negate the policy of restricting the German standard of living to the average of the surrounding European nations". "CARE Package shipments to individuals remained prohibited until 5 June 1946". The U.S. Army In The Occupation of Germany 1944–1946 by Earl F. Ziemke Footnotes to chapter 23, Further referenced to: (1) Memo, European Section Theater Group, OPD, for L & LD, sub: Establishment of Civilian Director of Relief, 8 December 45, in OPD, ABC 336 (sec. IV) (cases 155– ) . (2) OMGUS, Control Office, Hist Br, History of U.S. Military Government in Germany, Public Welfare, 9 July 46, in OMGUS 21–3/5.
Wirtschaft und Statistik, Heft 10 Oktober 1956, p. 497. The German Statistics Office's figure for civilian war and expulsion losses from all eastern territories of the former German Reich in its 1937 borders was about 1.26 million, plus they estimated about 1.02 million losses from ethnic German minorities outside the 1937 German borders.
