A l'issue de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'Europe est en ruine et fait face à une grave pénurie alimentaire. Dans ses Mémoires, le président américain Harry S. Truman rappelle les mesures envisagées par les États-Unis pour subvenir aux besoins alimentaires du continent européen.
On 6 April 1946, the Emergency Conference on European Cereals Supplies in London adopts a series of resolutions aimed at improving the agricultural situation in the countries of Europe.
On 3 April, at the conference on European Cereals Supplies in London, the representatives of the Belgian delegation paint a picture of the food situation in Belgium.
On 3 April 1946, Philip Noel-Baker, Chairman of the Emergency Conference held in London on European Cereals Supplies, lists the issues to be dealt with during the conference.
On 3 April 1946, the French Delegation to the Emergency Conference on European Cereals Supplies paints a picture of the agricultural situation in France.
On 19 November 1946, Nicolas Margue, Luxembourg Minister for Agriculture, writes to the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Pierre Dupong, to inform him of the labour shortage in the agricultural sector and to express his wish for Germany to compensate the country both financially and with manpower in order to help to overcome the lack of skilled workers.
Photograph taken on 12 April 1945 showing the last victims of the Nordhausen Nazi concentration camp, a sub-camp of the Mittelbau Dora concentration camp complex (Germany).
