The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

by Adam Tooze

A kilogram of bacon cost half a day’s work at 2 Reichsmarks and 14 Pfennigs. Butter was extraordinarily expensive. In 1936 the price per kilo of butter stood at 3 Reichsmarks and 10 Pfennigs. A 250-gram lump of butter cost more than an hour’s wage.