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To Smoke or Not to Smoke: The Cigarette Economy in Postwar Germany, 1945–48
Interesting read. To Smoke or Not to Smoke: The Cigarette Economy in Postwar Germany, 1945–48 During the three years after World War II, Germans—facing a ruined economy and wildly depreciating currency—turned to cigarettes as a medium of exchange on a massive scale. Allied occupation...