Germany was a country almost without shops and* most of such goods as were available were exchanged on a sort of barter-system, almost the only currency now respected being cigarettes. said Brigadier T J. King, who was formerly a district director for UNRRA in Germany, and has returned to New Zealand. He often wondered what happened to cigarettes in Germany, said Brigadier King. Nobody seemed to smoke them, and they were carried round lose in pockets for use as money. He could not say whether their progressive disintegration affected their currency value.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25308, 7 October 1947, Page 3
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