As the above cartoon implies, by 1943 the home front had learned that the captured Axis prisoners had access to all the food and sweets that were carefully rationed to the civil population. They were outraged that the cigarettes, meat and sugar they were told was going to the U.S. Military was also going to our German, Italian and Japanese POWs. American POWs in Germany were provided 1,000 calories a day; by contrast, Axis prisoners were fed 3,000 calories.
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