Travel butter brand
Travel butter tokens were food cards from the Nazi era that allowed the purchase of 62.5 g of butter each. In contrast to the usual food stamps, on which the name and address of the beneficiary was written, the travel butter stamps were not linked to names. Only the group of people who had to travel received such stamps.
The resistance fighter Oskar Huth describes in For the case of sobriety why he made these brands. "In order to be self-sufficient, you had to have food stamps, and then only travel stamps were suitable." "I only printed travel stamps, because the normal grocery cards had the so-called" trunk section "where the name and address were written on it. If you wanted to go shopping with it, you had to show your ID on request." Oskar Huth initially starts printing meat and bread stamps, but soon realizes that meat does not last long and bread is too bulky and he can exchange everything else for butter stamps. He has helped many people in hiding with his travel butter brands. He even added a real watermark to these fakes , while the real butter brands had a fake watermark.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jutta Hercher: The Butter Conspiracy. The survival run of Oskar Huth . Radio feature, broadcast by WDR 3 on November 5, 2011 ( Memento from November 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Oskar-Huth-Gesellschaft (editor) For the case of sobriety; Almanac for Oskar Huth's 60th birthday; Self-published, Berlin 1978. p. 22.
- ^ Alf Trenk (editor), Oskar Huth, survival run; Merve Verlag, Berlin 2001. p. 88.
- ^ Oskar-Huth-Gesellschaft (ed.): For the case of sobriety. Almanac for Oskar Huth's 60th birthday . Self-published, Berlin 1978. p. 12.
literature
- Alf Trenk (ed.), Oskar Huth: survival run. Merve Verlag , Berlin 2001.
- Oskar-Huth-Gesellschaft (Ed.): For the case of sobriety. Almanac for Oskar Huth's 60th birthday . Self-published, Berlin 1978.