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[–] TheEmpress [S] ago  (edited ago)

"[We] are caught in what has now unfolded as a savage and fanatical plot to destroy the German people by visiting on them a punishment in kind for the atrocities of their leaders. Not only have the leaders of this plot permitted the whole world situation to get ... out of hand ... but the determination to destroy the German people and the German nation, no matter what the consequences for our own moral principles, to our leadership in world affairs, to our Christian faith, to our allies, or to the whole future peace of the world have become a world scandal..."

-- US Senator William Langer

"The American people should know once and for all that as a result of this government's official policy they are being made unwilling accomplices in the crime of mass starvation... Germany is the only nation where UNRRA is not permitted to feed its nationals. Germany is the only nation subjected to a deliberate starvation policy of 1,500 calories per day."

-- US Senator Kenneth Wherry

"Whereas... reports teaching the United States indicate that... the policies of the victor powers are subjecting millions to mass starvation, and whereas the United States has been a party to the commitments and agreements reached among the victor powers which have led to these conditions; and whereas the Congress has been bypassed and the American people have been ignored in the formulation and implementation of these policies, and whereas it is essential that the Congress of the United States should obtain the necessary information to enact legislation and to request the President to take executive action designed to eliminate the starvation conditions resulting from the policies for which this Government is directly responsible."

-- March, 1946 US Senate resolution