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in Germany, which I believe was as reliable as
possible. Only the degree of need and nothing else
has guided our work.
Much has been written about Swedish relief work
during and after the war, and therefore I will give
here only glimpses of the activities of the Red Cross
in Germany. I can state that Swedish activities there
have comprised the feeding of a total of 121,000
children who, six days a week, received one meal a
day from us. From the beginning of these activities
to July 1, 1948, about 67,000,000 meals were
distributed. As I said, the organization was planned in
consultation with the British authorities, but in the
practical execution of the work, the Swedish
representatives also collaborated with the German
authorities, especially with the Landesjugendamt, and with
certain German humanitarian relief organizations
such as the Red Cross, Evangelisches Hilfswerk, and
the catholic relief organization, Caritas.
If possible, Hamburg made a still more dreary
impression this time than before. If one drives through
the city, one sometimes feels that one has come by
accident into an ancient ruined town which has
suddenly been populated by people of our own
generation, thus giving an impression of macabre unreality.
In this town, which at that time still had no street
lights or heating, a town where the streetcars and
elevated trains functioned only a few hours in the
morning and the afternoon, where the few theatres
and cinemas opened and closed early, and where there
was a curfew for the civilians after half past ten in
the evening, the Hamburg population lived, and still
lives a meagre and dreary life. It was not very easy
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