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French Hospitals Barter Wine Rations for Food During WWII
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French hospitals during WWII bartered their wine rations for potatoes, which were the only food dense enough in calories to keep their patients from starving. The average French working person's diet during the war was 1200 calories a day in the areas under German control.

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