CURRENCY TROUBLES
SOLDIERS SHAVED FREE An example of how Germany treats its “protected” and conquered peoples comes from Slovakia, says the Christian Science Monitor. Barbers in Bratislava are stated to have put notices in their windows saying: "German soldiers shaved free of charge.” The reason is that the barbers’ usual charge is two crowns But the Germans are allowed to pay in their own currency- If the soldier puts down one mark, nominally worth 10 crowns, he gets eight crowns change. When the barber goes to the Germancontrolled banks to change his mark into his own currency, he gets not ten crowns, but only seven So that the net result of the shaving transaction for the barber is one crown to the bad. ________
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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123CURRENCY TROUBLES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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