cigarettes in pow camps Was “Cigarette-Money” World War II a Case of Commodity Money Origination? Operation Homecoming > National Museum
Operation Homecoming > National Museum of the United States Air Force > Display In 1944, a group of prisoners invented a complete monetary system. Nobody told them to. British economist R.A. Radford was held in a German POW camp during WWII. Within weeks of arrival Nazis Hit Alcohol, Tobacco" Experiencing History: Holocaust Sources in Context Auschwitz In Auschwitz, as in all the German nazi concentration camps, cigarettes were used as currency. Kapos (prisoner functionaries) and other high ranking prisoners were issued tobacco coupons. One cigarette equaled a German Soldier Giving a Cigarette to a French PoW, 1940. [574 800] : r HistoryPorn German POWs filled gap on Christian County farms during WWII
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