American Relief Administration Warehouse
An American Relief Administration Warehouse was a depot of the ARA European Children's Fund. Established from the fall of 1919, these warehouses were used to support the American Relief Administration 's children's meals.
The main purpose of Engrosverkauf were added food to other charities or government bodies and to food change the delivery of ARA-food packages . These were assembled on-site for goods delivered from the United States . There were ARA warehouses in the following five countries (location of the central warehouse / number of branches):
- Germany (Hamburg / 6)
- Austria (Vienna / 31)
- Poland (Warsaw / 14)
- Czechoslovakia (Prague / 9)
- Hungary (Budapest)
The goods were first shipped to Hamburg or Gdansk and then transported on. One of the larger losses occurred when the West Munham ran aground off Heligoland on March 9, 1922 and the cargo was unusable. After the start of the relief measures because of the Russian famine of 1921 , food was shipped from Hamburg via Riga to the more ailing Soviet Union. There were ARA warehouses at the 19 regional headquarters, from where food was also sent with the help of Russian parcel post. The processing of food orders ceased in March 1923.
literature
- Frank M. Surface / Raymond L. Bland: American Food in the World War and Reconstruction Period. Operations of the Organizations Under the Direction of Herbert Hoover 1914 to 1924 , Stanford University Press, Stanford 1931, p. 93 u. 257
- Hermann Stöhr : This is how America helped. The United States' Foreign Aid 1812-1930 , Ökumenischer Verlag, Stettin 1936, p. 164
- Herbert Hoover: Memoirs (Vol. 2). The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920–1933 , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1952, p. 22