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The success of the Wehrmacht in the first years of the World War II made it possible for the NAZIs to spare German civilians at home from deprivations experienced during World War I. This was accomplished by two expedients. First, slave labor including POWs was used to prevent agricultural production from plumetting. Second, the NAZIs ruthlessly plundered the food production of occupied countries. Thus food was still easily available in Germany during the first years of the War. Rationing was introduced, but it was not severe. The Germans thus had much better diets than the British who were forced to introduce a very strict raioning program which strictly regulated the consumption of meats, dairy proucts and eggs, sugar, and other foods. The German people still had access to these foods, although items obtainble through marine commerce (bananas, chocolate, coffee, sugar, ect were difficult to obtain). These and other commodities were cut off by the British naval blockade. Nothing of course stopped the flow od food over the rail lines from the occupied countries into the Reich.
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