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At the time, we sent food because we knew they were starving.

It was very hard to open, but once you opened it, we knew we had received a treasure.

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Welcome to the BBC World Service. I'm Susan Stone and you are listening to parcels of care.

Over the next hour, we'll discover how acts of kindness have changed lives across continents

and how simple packages carried more than food. They carried hope and they still do today.

We start in the past, more than 75 years ago, when a war had torn the world apart.

The whole world is excited by the joyful news. The Red Army is in Berlin.

The flag of victory flies above Berlin.

Now the war against Germany is won.

President Truman announced the official surrender.

This is a solemn but glorious hour. General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered.

It's 1945 and the Second World War has ended. Europe lies in ruins.

Devastation runs from France and the West deep into Russia in the East,

leaving millions dead and almost as many homeless.

In the German capital Berlin, there are shells of bombed out houses as far as you can see.

For survivors of the war, life is a daily struggle.

The reality of everyday life was that everything was destroyed.

There was neither electricity nor running water.

We didn't think about what would happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

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