Food difficulties in Nazi Germany

Food difficulties in Nazi Germany 

Food difficulties in Nazi Germany 

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The files contain information about the shortage of food in Germany before and at the beginning of the Second World war, and the measures taken in order to cope with the situation. The first intimation of food difficulties appears in the Nazi press in 1934. It begins with fodder and cattle shortage. Maximum prices are fixed for butter and offenders are threatened with fines. In December 1935, butter hoarders are threatened with confinement in Dachau concentration camp. The press refers to these hardships as temporary but they just increase as the years pass by. In 1936, the first card system for food stuffs is introduced and immediately after the outbreak of war, a stringent ration card system, with changes made for children, is introduced for the principal food stuffs like bread, meat, fat, cheese, milk, eggs, sugar...The reports also mention distribution difficulties and the attitude of the people. in April 1940, the whole German press publish the Ten Commandments for the Consumer.