Milk production battle

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Certificate for the Sötebier family for their services in the context of the milk production battle in 1943

The milk production battle was in the era of National Socialism , a competition to promote milk production during the Second World War .

On March 6, 1940, the Reich Ministry of Food opened the first competition as part of the milk production battle . Certificates and monetary bonuses were awarded to those farmers who delivered milk to the dairies in excess of the quantities stipulated for the respective area .

The competition envisaged the establishment of a milk performance committee, which was supposed to advise the producers on the optimal feeding as well as on the care and keeping of dairy cows .

See also

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literature

  • Heinrich Hornich: Successful dairy farming. A guide in the milk production battle with a special focus on milk fat production. Leopold Stocker, Graz 1943. (not evaluated)
  • Gustavo Corni, Horst Gies: bread. Butter. Cannons. The food industry in Germany under Hitler's dictatorship. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002933-1 .

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