How were the red and blue ration tokens used during WWII?
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There are 30 different red tokens and 24 blue ones. \nThey are all celluloid and 16mm in size. \nBlue ones read: OPA Blue Point 1 (with two different letters) \nRed ones read: OPA Red Point 1 (with two different letters)\n•OPA stands for Office of Price Administration \n•First issued in 1944 \n•Stopped being issued in 1945 \n•Used to ration retail items during the end of WWII. The items rationed included canned goods, meats, sugar, coffee, tires, gas and more. \n•All red ones were worth 40 cents unless they had these letters MM $5.00 XC $2.00 YC $2.00 \n•Blue ones were worth 80 cents unless they had the following letters WU $2.00 HX $2.00
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In 1943, at the peak of World War II, cents of zinc-plated steel were made for a short time due to war demands for copper. A few (the U.S. Mint reports forty) copper cents from 1943 were produced from the 1942 planchets remaining in the bins. Similarly, some 1944 steel cents have been reported. Following 1943, salvaged ammunition shells made their way into the minting process, and it was not uncommon to see coins featuring streaks of brass or having a considerably darker finish than other issues.\n\nUnless it's copper, it's not worth much more than a penny
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there were a lot of contributions to the defeat of germany in WWI. a lot was more internal, like the German Revolution. the website talks about this and other events.
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the link below should give you any more information you might need.\n\nOn the night of 9-10 May 1940, German troops invaded the Netherlands.\n\nA German civil administration was installed under SS supervision. At its head was Reichskommissar (Reich Commissioner) Dr Arthur Seyss-Inquart, with 5 commissioners-general serving under him. Among them were Friedrich Wimmer (administration and justice) and Hans Albin Rauter (commissioner-general for public safety and HSSPF). These men were to be among the principal perpetrators of the annihilation of Dutch Jewry.
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I searched for records for my grandfather's WW2 records because he had earned several medals but wanted to get home so bad when he was done - he didn't wait for them and then never followed up. BUT, during the Vietnam war protests there were several protests and one in particular that many of the records were destroyed by fire.  If you have even one piece of paper that has any of his info, that is the starting point. There are certian medals that he would have gotten just for being enlisted. Then there are other medals that he would have gotten based on his job and length of service. THEN there are speciality medals for conduct, promotion, ect. I found that the old guys that work behind the counters at the army surplus stores are a GREAT reference and since most of them have been thru a war or two know who to call where. Good luck. These medals definately become a family heirloom. It took me three years to get all of my grandfathers. And I did it thru surplus stores.
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http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/ww1a.asp
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I'm assuming that "gold" is meant metaphorically. It was next to impossible to emmigrate at the end of the war for various reasons.\n\nWhat I do know is that there were an awful lot of farmers with Persian carpets in their houses, startlingly fine silverware and more fur coats in the closet than they would ever be able to wear themselves around the end of WWII. Food was definitely worth more than luxury material goods.\n\nThat was my great aunt's explanation for the fur coats in her own closet - and since the woman had a heart of gold but no imagination to speak of, I'll take her explanation at face value.
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Hope this helps.........\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
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hey, i think i have found a solution for your project. go here http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/
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The Holocaust was more than a Jewish event. Records kept by the Germans prove they exterminated millions of Communists, Czechs, Greeks, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally and physically handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, Russians, Serbs, Socialists, Spanish Republicans, trade unionists, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, prisoners of war of many nations, and still others whose identity may never be recognized. Their victims, according to one survivor of four different concentration camps, "were of some thirty nationalities, from Nepalese to Andorrans, and of a variety of racial and linguistic stocks ranging from Basques to Buriats and from Ladinos to Lapps". When people were not immediately exterminated, they were sent to work and/or concentration camps. There the prisoners were divided into six penal categories and given patches on their clothing for identification purposes. Ordinary criminals were assigned green; political prisoners wore red; black was worn by asocials (slackers, prostitutes, procurers, etc.); homosexuals wore pink; conscientious objectors wore purple, and the Jewish people wore yellow.\n\nOh and by the way Hitler was NOT of the jewish faith ... Hitler, himself, was a Catholic.
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world war 2 was going on
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Well it came from the 68th Quarter Master Unit during WWII at Burma campaign. It is called a Distinctive Unit Insignia so I would guess it is given for battle service of delivery of the fuel & supplies & helping bring back the wounded.\nOriginally that was what it was for.
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Volontiers sold them during WW I (or II?) in the US. the revenue helped financed the war effort.
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During the war, petrol was rationed and people simply couldn't travel.  It remained rationed for some time afterwards, which had an effect not merely on road transport but on air transport.  Few people owned cars.  Very few people indeed had ever flown.  Food rationing was gradually phased out after the war, until the early 1950's, but that must have had some effect on the tourist industry, with people unable to have a wide choice of food and catering having to struggle with shortages. Even in the 1950s people had to cope with currency restrictions for travel abroad.   Imagine going on holiday to foreign parts with a limit of 25 pounds per adult and less (I think it was ten pounds) for children to pay for everything!  Foreign travel was in fact very rare, becoming more popular in the sixties and commonplace in the seventies. It worked both ways, of course, with foreign tourists coming to Britain as well as British people going abroad.  At the same time standards of food improved, with the British being exposed to different cuisines and becoming more adventurous.  It was accepted that in order to attract the mighty dollar accommodation had to become more luxurious and so North American standards became the accepted norm.\n\nBack in 1945 the general idea of tourism was to stay within one's own country and visit relatives or stay in bed and breakfast accommodation or a boarding house.  Caravan holidays were popular too and some British Rail disused train carriages were converted into holiday accommodation. A seaside holiday with bucket and spade enjoying such attractions as the pier, the Punch and Judy show and perhaps a few fairground attractions was most people's idea of a good time.  Then Billy Butlin opened his famous holiday camps in the fifties and they became immensely popular.  Gradually people acquired their own transport and became more adventurous generally and tourism gradually developed into a major industry, with the English Tourist Board, the Welsh Tourist Board, the Scottish Tourist Board and the London Tourist Board setting up to promote tourism to the UK.
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good project...I don't know all the answers to your questions but I bet if you googled it with the phrase\n*German Nationalism post WWII* you'd get a lot of info.\n(use the asterisk's to lock in the topic)
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=World+War+II&gwp=13
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A while ago when I was in school yet, our Sociology teacher posed a question( as many do) about a lifeboat with survivors on it; many on the boat were near death. One person was given the task of deciding how to ration water and food for all the survivors. This individual divided the rations amongst all of the survivors equally, even those who would perish anyway(human nature). However, by the end of this social experiment, I do recall... we all perished. There was not enough to ration out to all, so we ended up starved, dehydrated and then fish food.