GARIOA

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Government Aid and Relief in Occupied Areas ( GARIOA ) had since 1946 a US - aid program after the Second World War to the occupied countries Japan , Austria and the Allied occupied zones in Germany .

Germany received GARIOA aid between July 1946 and March 1950. JCS 1067 was valid until July 1947, so it was forbidden to use GARIOA to import raw materials for industry.

Austria only received GARIOA aid in the US occupation zone .

Aid was mainly given in the form of food to prevent the population from starving. The rations were inadequate in their composition and remained well below the minimum recommended amount. Officials said the food rations being distributed would lead to "starvation fairly quickly" (represented a fairly rapid starvation level).

As in the later Marshall Plan , the aid was billed to the occupied countries. In 1953 they amounted to $ 3.3 billion for West Germany , but it was decided in the same year that only $ 1.1 billion of that was to be repaid. The amount was paid off until 1971.

Private organizations such as the ICRC were banned by the Allies from supporting Germans with food, but this ban was lifted in spring 1946 (see CRALOG ).

In the spring of 1946, the ICRC was finally allowed to visit prisoners of war in the US zone of occupation and to distribute a limited amount of food aid.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas Balabkins: Germany Under Direct Controls: Economic Aspects of Industrial Disarmament 1945-1948. Rutgers University Press, 1964, p. 101.
  2. ^ The Marshall Plan: The Reconstruction Program for Europe after 1945. Democracy Center Vienna (PDF file; 43 kB). Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Nicholas Balabkins: Germany Under Direct Controls: Economic Aspects of Industrial Disarmament 1945-1948. Rutgers University Press, 1964, p. 107.
  4. ↑ Staff. ICRC in WW II: German prisoners of war in Allied hands. February 2, 2005, accessed September 3, 2016 .