To Smoke or Not to Smoke: The Cigarette Economy in Postwar Germany, 1945–48

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Economic Policy, Free Markets, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

07/25/2023 T. Hunt Tooley

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

Original Article: “To Smoke or Not to Smoke: The Cigarette Economy in Postwar Germany, 1945–48“

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