[aristeides]

The Nazis didn't send cigs to the Eastern front? I didn't know that. I think I remember German soldiers smoking in Eastern front movies like Cross of Iron. Are those movies inaccurate on this point? Or did the soldiers find a way to smuggle cigarettes? I imagine they overran enough Russian positions to be able to smoke papirosy, if that was all they could get, at least in the first couple of years of Barbarossa. Soldiers like stronger smokes anyway. When I was stationed in Berlin, I smoked Gaulloises.

[Leisler]

Even the Nazis couln't stop smoking. The German Army had a cigs ration. Hitler forbade it. Thus you had the notion that even though a soldier was being sent to certian death, no smoking. It was in this book

Give me untill tomorrow afternoon and I will find the source.