@lain @kaia @foxhkron > The blood delivery contracts with West Germany ran until the end of 1990. Within the health sector, blood trading became the key income source of foreign currency [22]. In 1989, the GDR delivered more than 150,000 L of blood to the West [17]. The GDR donors were not informed about this. Among the 813,000 full-blood donations at the time, almost 96% were non-remunerated Red Cross donations [10].