The division of Germany gave Russia the selfsupporting agricultural section of eastern Germany. The western section. under the British and American control. cannot feed itself. and never did. In this area. the vast majority of the population of Germany have pouredGermans from various other European countries. such as Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia. as. well as refugees from the Russian zone. In spite of German territory taken by Russia and Poland. the population of the present curtailed Germany is larger than that of prewar Germany. Seventytwo million Germans are being crowded into an area onequarter smaller than the whole prewar Germany which supported only 69.000.000 Germans.
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