How many people in the US died during the Great Depression?

How many people in the US died during the Great Depression?



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How many people in the US starved to death during the Great Depression?


Famine killed 7 million people in USA

Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933.
Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate...


Life and death during the Great Depression






How many Americans died of hunger during the Great Depression?

In a pamphlet entitled Tenant Farmer, published in 1935, Erskine Caldwell describes a four year old girl dying of malnutrition and anemia, a six year old boy in the process of starving to death and "two babies, neither a year old, sucking the dry teats of a mongrel bitch." He goes on to write "The dog got up and shook herself and lay down several feet away. The babies crawled crying after her."

I read this some years ago in a book called Struggling to Shake Off Old Shackles and have never been able to shake it from my mind.

I have been looking for good statistics on this chapter of U.S. history. How many people died of hunger in the U.S. during the 1930s? If anyone could point me to a reliable source, I would be very much obliged.

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