Yes, but they were run by G-dless Commies. 
If you have ever read Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, you may notice that Fleming goes into great detail describing the gourmet meals that Bond enjoys. To Fleming’s middle-class and working-class readers, those meals were as lurid a fantasy as the beautiful women, the fast cars, and the picturesque locations.
I recall caviar on squares of toast.
Len Deighton never wrote any about rationing.
Too busy sticking drill bits into commies, I guess.
I don’t think lumping together the two Germanies would make much sense for that sort of comparison. They were two different states (I know, legally it took a long while for West Germany to recognise the East as a state in its own right, and even then only half-heartedly - but for all practical purposes, they were different states) with different economic systems, being allied with two opposing military alliances. West Germany integrated itself into the Western economic system, the East didn’t. Lumping the two together would make as much sense as lumping together the UK and Ireland - you wouldn’t, they’re simply two different countries.
Two previous threads that may be of interest:
Pay parades of the type described above were occasionally done into the 1980’s, particularly if you were on some exercise abroad and were going to be paid in the local currency. But by then people normally had their money paid into their bank account.
There was never any shortage of money to pay soldiers, though sometimes they would be paid in military scrip that was not convertible into the local economy.
As well as Lend-Lease aid we had a Billion Dollar Gift from Canada (largely forgotten today). We had a third more than West Germany in Marshall Aid, and spent most of it propping up the sterling area.
Inflation doesn’t take off if there aren’t any goods to spend it on, and prices are largely government controlled. People were strongly encouraged to save money rather than spend, often by buying War Savings Certificates. Other loans such as ‘Wings For Victory’ were pushed as well. In the First War many countries urged their populations to subscribe to War Loans or National Defense Loans or one sort or another; the losers lost everything at the end of the war.
The British 1917 War Loan paid 5%; by 1931 this was well above market rate and the Treasury announced a forced conversion, which technically did not amount to a default, as the stockholders could opt to be repaid at par. The Treasury urged investors to send back these stocks in exchange for an undated stock paying 3.5%, as a patriotic gesture to help the country in its financial difficulties. There were some short-term financial incentives to give people a nudge, but essentially it was sold as a ‘noble sacrifice’ . The principal was to be repaid “when the Chancellor deems it to be in the national interest”. That happy day has yet to arrive, and the many people who took this deal have long since departed this world without their money back. By the 1990s £100-worth of War Loan was discounted on the market to £33. In recent years, the possibility of Britain joining the euro reawakened interest in War Loan, as the Treasury would have to repay this, and any other sterling loans, first.