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- Title
Feeding Germany: American Quakers in the Weimar Republic.
- Authors
Aiken, Guy
- Abstract
The article highlights the historical diplomatic efforts of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, in helping Germans during the Weimar Republic. The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was responsible for carrying out civilian relief near the end of the Great War without U.S. government support. The Quaker feeding program is cited by political scientist Michael Barnett as an example of interwar transitional period in humanitarianism. The Quakers worked with the German Central Committee for Foreign Relief (DZA) for the oversight of cooking and distribution of food and they established centers where feeding took place. The AFSC also administered the Allen committee's funds for child feeding in Germany when the French occupied the Rurh Valley in the Rhineland.
- Subjects
SOCIETY of Friends; AMERICAN food relief; AMERICAN humanitarian assistance; WEIMAR Republic, 1918-1933; QUAKERS; WAR relief; HISTORY of diplomacy; HUMANITARIANISM
- Publication
Diplomatic History, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 4, p597
- ISSN
0145-2096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/dh/dhz027