Molobo -- you said, in response to this quote from Michael Mills:
Nevertheless, the first chart shows some interesting phenomena. One is the net outflow of food from Germany to the Generalgouvernement of Poland in 1940 and 1941, ie in those years Germany was helping to feed Poland, rather than the other way around.
Manipulation of Mills
Chart 639a, in my post above at
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 309#754309 , clearly shows
a minus balance in the net imports of foodstuffs from Poland in 1940 (-30.4 million RM) and 1941 (-10.4 million RM). This means that in 1940 Germany sent 30.4 million Reichsmarks worth of food into Poland, and another 10.4 million Reichsmarks worth of food in 1941. These figures say nothing about who
ate the food.
It is well-established that the rations in the Generalgouvernement for Poles and Jews were horrible in 1940 and 1941. T. Tsarota,
Warschau unter dem Hakenkreuz, Paderborn: 1985, p. 113, gives these figures:
1940
1st Quarter Poles 609 calories; Jews 503 calories
2nd Quarter Poles 704 calories; Jews 449 calories
3rd Quarter Poles 698 calories; Jews 331 calories
4th Quarter Poles 938 calories; Jews 369 calories
Yearly average Poles 737 calories; Jews 413 calories
1941
1st Quarter Poles 611 calories; Jews 237 calories
2nd Quarter Poles 553 calories; Jews 219 calories
3rd Quarter Poles 531 calories; Jews 198 calories
4th Quarter Poles 981 calories; Jews 360 calories
Yearly average Poles 669 calories; Jews 253 calories
However, neither these figures nor anything you posted show that Mr. Mills has manipulated anything, nor do your quotations explain the minus balances in the net imports of foodstuffs from Poland during 1940 and 1941. The question here is what accounts for the minus balances in those years. All that these figures and your quotes show is that, whatever the explanation for the minus balances may have been, the Poles and Jews of the Generalgouvernement didn't get much to eat in 1940-1941. Even so, and even after confiscations from Polish farmers, the Germans may still have had to import food into Poland to provide hefty rations to the German occupiers and Volksdeutsch community.
The chart 639a figures are provided by A.S. Milward, not Michael Mills. If you are going to raise a claim of "manipulation" by one of the posters, be prepared to prove it. If you can't, don't make the claim.