 Red Cross Provisions
Red Cross food parcels came in large, water-resistant cardboard shipping boxes containing four parcels each. Each parcel, as a supplement to German rations, would safely keep a POW going for one week, 1800 calories per day.
Below are the contents of one of the Red Cross food parcels. Intended issue was one partial parcel per man per week. To feed Stalag Luft III for one week at this rate in January 1945 would have required 11,000 parcels with no reserve.
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