1946 Berlin. “Official” scrip was ration cards, right?
My father said that what brought action at a daily level was all black market.
So, two questions:
Within these three commodities (assuming I’m correct that these are the big three) what were their internal rates, eg, x cigarettes is worth y nylons; and
What were these commodities worth to the official, current monetary (scrip) situation?
I don’t even know the baseline of products and services in either market system, which would help, for starters…