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...German Army fills the belly it marches on was described in scientific detail last week by a Viennese food expert now in Manhattan. In the New York State Journal of Medicine Dr. Max Bernhard Gerson presented a summary of military food facts gleaned from almost two dozen German medical journals...
Three Squares. Once the best men available were recruited, said Dr. Gerson, the Army spared no pains and expense to build them up. Each German soldier gets about 3,800 calories a day, the same number of calories required by a ditchdigger. The daily menu...
Soldiers get little meat, but that is often nutritious heart, liver, kidneys, lungs. Since no restrictions are placed on food for the Army, Dr. Gerson thinks that meatless rations are not due to economic necessity, "but [to] the newer knowledge of the science of nutrition." German military doctors, for instance, claim that vegetarianism cures neuroses and depression, makes for greater efficiency. But U.S. scientists generally believe that vegetable proteins are poor substitutes for good red meat in building new body tissues. In the U.S. Army, soldiers get about 10 ounces of meat...
Gist of Archivist Goapka's findings: the Willkie family did not emigrate 90 years ago in search of freedom, after Germany's abortive Revolution of 1848, but ten years later, because a Jew named Gerson did them out of the coppersmithy...
Archivist Goapka made much of the fact that Bernhard Gerson, who bought the smithy, paid nothing down, instead for 13 years paid Widow Willcke a monthly installment of 7⅔ talers...