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Re: coffee on U-boats
Posted by:
Magnus
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Date: September 08, 2004 08:51PM
Hi everyone!
Interesting question,I believe(note:believe) that some coffee could take the route via neutral Sweden into Germany.
I checked out a few Swedish sites on everyday life in Sweden during ww2,if you talk to an old-timer the coffe-substitute is often mentioned!
Sweden managed to get 107 ooo tons of coffe between 1939-45,normal annual consumtion should have been 250 000/year.
The defence forces got a high portion of the real coffe but still one had to add "stuff" to it.
In Sweden alone there were 155 brands of "surr" that is "surrogat kaffe", substitute coffe.
On the small amounts of real coffe that housewives got they could make coffe by making a dough out of potatoe and rye,bake it in the owen and mix the hard pieces with coffe beans,20 % coffe and 80% dough and grind it.
This was the Swedish way,I guess that Germans did similar things with Ersatz-Kaffee.
I believe that Turkey had quite good connections with Germany,perhaps some coffe came from there?
HTH(a little bit)
Regards/Magnus
Interesting question,I believe(note:believe) that some coffee could take the route via neutral Sweden into Germany.
I checked out a few Swedish sites on everyday life in Sweden during ww2,if you talk to an old-timer the coffe-substitute is often mentioned!
Sweden managed to get 107 ooo tons of coffe between 1939-45,normal annual consumtion should have been 250 000/year.
The defence forces got a high portion of the real coffe but still one had to add "stuff" to it.
In Sweden alone there were 155 brands of "surr" that is "surrogat kaffe", substitute coffe.
On the small amounts of real coffe that housewives got they could make coffe by making a dough out of potatoe and rye,bake it in the owen and mix the hard pieces with coffe beans,20 % coffe and 80% dough and grind it.
This was the Swedish way,I guess that Germans did similar things with Ersatz-Kaffee.
I believe that Turkey had quite good connections with Germany,perhaps some coffe came from there?
HTH(a little bit)
Regards/Magnus
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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coffee on U-boats | kurt | 09/03/2004 05:24PM |
Re: coffee on U-boats | Io Chrysafidou | 09/03/2004 05:52PM |
Re: coffee on U-boats | Magnus | 09/08/2004 08:51PM |