cigarettes in pow camps The perfect draw – when cigarettes became a war camp currency

In WW2 POW camps, cigarettes were often used as a currency in order to facilitate trade between prisoners In modern prisons, ramen noodles are commonly used in a similar fashion In this

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In Auschwitz, as in all the German nazi concentration camps, cigarettes were used as currency. Kapos (prisoner functionaries) and other high-ranking prisoners were issued tobacco coupons. One cigarette equaled a soup ration;

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Philip Morris made cigarettes at Auschwitz in the 1990s

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Was “Cigarette-Money” in World War II POW Camps a Case of Commodity Money Origination?

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In Auschwitz, as in all the German nazi concentration camps, cigarettes were used as currency. Kapos (prisoner functionaries) and other high-ranking prisoners were issued tobacco coupons. One cigarette equaled a soup ration;

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An American soldier gives cigarettes to a few of the more than 30,000 liberated concentration camp inmates at Dachau on April 29, 1945. GIs had a hard time believing Germans who protested

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New Book on the Money Used by World War II Prisoners of War in the United States

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