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CARE package with contents, ca. 1946
This article is part of the Intervention Liberation 1945 – Open Ending, Fragile Future.
This cardboard CARE package was sent to Austria after the Second World War and contained foodstuffs such as chocolate and tins of powdered milk, coffee and meat. These products were in short supply in Austria at the time and they were intended to bring relief to a population suffering the hardships of the postwar period. A coalition of different aid organisations under the name “Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe” began shipping CARE packages from the USA to Austria in 1946. From 1947 onwards the packages were standardised and contained a nutritional value of around 40,000 kilocalories.
DetailsDate: ca. 1946
Accession: Donation, 2018
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