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Article: Divide and conquer; answers to correspondents.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2006
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Byline: JAMES BLACK;CHARLES LEGGE
QUESTION My granddaughter is interested in the rationing system in place during World War II. I am 93 and lived through both wars, but I cannot remember the quantities of food we were allowed. Is there a list of rationed foods and how much of each we could buy?
IN 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, Britain was still heavily dependent on importing food from abroad - around 55 million tons per year.
That's more than a ton of food per person, per year.
The German High Command was quick to realise Britain's dependence on overseas sources, and Uboat, air and surface raider attacks on merchant shipping ...