“…43 Already during the war Herbert Hoover started his Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) to relieve the suffering of the civil population in German-occupied Belgium, which faced a serious food crisis. 44 Although in Austria-Hungary the Hunger crisis was even more severe, its reason was not merely the hunger blockade. 45 Its own radically diminished agricultural production and its interrupted intraimperial transport of foodstuffs led to famine.…”