NAZIS PLUNDER EUROPE
.0. The plundering of Europe by the German occupiers lias produced one result of peculiar significance— those 1 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 Avine there is rationed to* two litres a week. Germany meanwhile is taking 5,000,000 hectolitres a year —because Germain* needs alcohol for blending with motor spirit. An economic expert giving this example added several more. Italy <s famous for olives and macaroni. ISeth are now strictly rationed there, because Germany needs them. Kumania is a wheal and oil pnviueii::-' country, yet IJumania ha-- !u •« bn f" i''! ■IC'i '' '. ' :
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 17, 16 February 1942, Page 8
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114NAZIS PLUNDER EUROPE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 17, 16 February 1942, Page 8
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