A 1988 interview with a Soviet WWII veteran who was held in a German POW camp alongside 8,000 captured American soldiers claimed Germans provided the Americans with regular Red Cross food parcels (about 5 kg per man weekly) while starving the Soviets on little more than turnip soup and water; the Americans secretly threw rations over the dividing fence to save their Russian comrades until the Gestapo investigated.
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