ERSATZ MONEY
BASE NAZI COINAGE ACCEPTANCE FORCED OCCUPIED COUNTRIES REFUSALS IN BELGIUM (Reed. May 30, 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 28. As a result of the lack of silver, copper and nickel, the Germans are issuing zinc coins, says a Belgium correspondent of The Times. Belgian traders at first were inclined to refuse these coins and the Germans were forced to remind the population that they must be accepted in the occupied countries. The Belgians continue to mistrust this' ersatz'money. The Brusseler Zeitung, produced by German journalists who were in Belgium before the outbreak of the war, expresses indignation because.. Belgians are scrawling on the walls “Vive Churchill. Vive la R.A.F.’ The paper declares that the Belgians are already drawing up a list of traitors whom they wish to have punished after the British victory.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20568, 30 May 1941, Page 5
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