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Food, Weapon of Conquest

Name: Food, Weapon of Conquest
Duration: 22 min

Stuart Legg

1941 | 22 min

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This 1940s wartime newsreel shows the food shortage in Nazi-occupied countries that have been forced to hand over their farm produce to Germany, leaving their own populations hungry. Part of the Canada Carries On series.

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