Berlin, Germany, Feb. 6, 1947: Military Police wait at the snow-covered entrance at Berlin’s Lichterfelde-West train station for former President Herbert Hoover to arrive.

Hoover travelled to Germany as President Truman’s special investigator for Continental relief needs. As Honorary Chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee (FEC), Hoover and his team travelled 50,000 miles to thirty-eight different nations from March and into June 1946 to witness and evaluate famine needs in the afflicted nations and arrange food supplies. His 1947 trip to Germany and Austria was his second trip as the two countries were still struggling.

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