Just imagine how far you could have gotten with a case of Klondike bars...
Just imagine how far you could have gotten with a case of Klondike bars...
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My father was an inspector for Marshall Plan goods based out of the Brooklyn army base... he spent most of the 1950’s in Europe ... YOU ARE 100% CORRECT ,,, with basically ANY trade goods , particularly food items you could have ANYTHING you wanted... a canned ham would be like a ticket to the Playboy mansion... and don’t forget this was after WW2 ,, there was a man shortage in England and Germany,,, in England at least (unofficially) it was not uncommon to have multiple wives ...