PLUNDERED BY NAZIS
OCCUPIED COUNTRIES SHORTAGE OF PRODUCTS (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 28. The plundering of Europe by the German occupied armies has produced one result of peculiar significance—those products for which the countries are noted are precisely the products of which they are most short to-day. France is a land of wine-growers, yet wine there is rationed to two litres a week. Germany, meanwhile, is taking 5,000,000 hectolitres a year—because Germany needs alcohol for blending with motor spirit. An economic expert, giving this example, added several more. Italy is famous for olives and macaroni; both are now strictly rationed there because Germany needs them. Rumania is a wheat and oil-producing country, yet Rumania has two breadless days a week, and no private motoring is allowed. The Nazis, of course, need both wheat and oil, which are transported lo Germany in vast quantities. Czechoslovakia has huge boot factories, but the shoes there, when obtainable, arc wooden-soled—because Germany is short of leather and the German army must be shod.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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