Böcker av Malte Zierenberg

Presents the history of Berlin's black market scene between 1939 and 1950. This work focuses not just on the economic aspects but also explores a specific culture of bartering during the war and in the post-war era and analyses its consequences for society in the two Germanies.

This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history. The black market, it argues, served as a reference point for the beginnings of the two new German states.