CARE Package

CARE packages are food packets that were after the end of World War II in the context of American aid programs to Europe, in particular Germany and Austria sent.

History

As was after the Second World War, millions of people without food, clothing and medicine, founded on 27 November 1945 in the U.S. 22 charities, private aid organization CARE ( "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe" ) to coordinate relief operations for Europe. Even the U.S. Army participated and exhibited their accounts 2.8 million have become obsolete Armeerationspakete for the first grocery deliveries available. The prohibition to send relief supplies to Germany ended in December 1945 and from June 5, 1946, there was also possible to send care packages to the American occupation zone. 21 June 1946 care packages were sent to the British occupation zone, and from December 1946, in the French occupation zone.

The first CARE packages for the American occupation zone met in August 1946 in the port of Bremen. Most of them were sent to relatives of U.S. citizens.

In March 1947, CARE began sending packages whose contents put together the organization. They contained more meat, more fat and more carbohydrates. The nutritional value of these packages was about 40,000 kilocalories.

Almost ten million CARE packages arrived 1946-1960 Germany, Austria and other European countries. They contained 83,000 tons of supplies means.

Content of a CARE package

Contained the standard CARE Package