SOCIAL STABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY OF THE GERMAN POPULATION DURING WORLD WAR II 1939–1945

Abstract

The article investigates the problem of social stability and food securement of the German population during the Second World War 1939–1945. It is found that the centralized system of food security introduced in Germany during the Second World War played an important role in providing the population with a minimum set of provisions. The policy of the Nazi regime towards its citizens in order to save food is highlighted. It was established that the successful solution of the problem of food security of the population was one of the primary tasks for the Third Reich, on which the victory over the enemy, the normal functioning of the state and the leading branches of the national economy depended. It is characterized how, under the existing restrictions of totalitarianauthoritarian Germany, decisions were made in favour of some and at the expense of others