Erik Florin

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In 1940–41, for instance, a group of employees from the railway postal service were discovered to be sending their empty postal wagon from Nuremberg as far as Metz, where they handed it over to their French colleagues along with tens of thousands of marks’ worth of Reich Credit Notes. Each week, the wagon returned from Paris filled with ‘scarce goods like coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, brandy, champagne, wine, spirits, clothes, stockings, etc.’ The Nuremberg employees sold on most of the goods to other postal workers, setting off a small chain of black-market
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
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