FOOD RATIONING IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
HEAVY PENALTIES FOR SABOTAGE LONDON, June 6. Fresh evidence of Czech efforts to sabotage the Nazi food rationing scheme has reached Czechoslovakian quarters in London. The Czechs are attempting to defeat the German Rationing system under which they themselves get strictly limited supplies of food, while their surplus production goes to Germany. Illicit sales of home-produced rationed foodstuffs are rapidly increasing in volume, and, according to statistics published in the Prague paper “Venkov,” penalties of 8,000,000 crowns and sentences totalling 156 years of forced labour or imprisonment have been imposed on offenders from January to the first days of May. Since then, the official paper "Der Neue Tag” has published the names of more offenders. These lists sometimes run, into two pages. One of the heaviest sentences of this kind—three years of forced labour and the loss of civil liberties for five years —was passed on a butcher in Pilsen who had slaughtered 10 pigs without permission.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23350, 9 June 1941, Page 3
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