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====The points system====
Walter Felscher recalls: 
''For every person, there were rationing cards for general foodstuffs, meats, fats (such as butter, margarine and oil) and tobacco products distributed every other month. The cards were printed on strong paper, containing numerous small "Marken" subdivisions printed with their value – for example, from "5 g Butter" to "100 g Butter". Every acquisition of rationed goods required an appropriate "Marken", and if a person wished to eat a certain soup at a restaurant, the waiter would take out a pair of scissors and cut off the required items to make the soup and amounts listed on the menu. In the evenings, shop-owners would spend an hour at least gluing the collected "Marken" onto large sheets of paper which they then had to hand in to the appropriate authorities.''
also created a cut in the amount of rationed bread, meat and fat.<ref>{{cite web|title=Recycling and rationing in wartime Germany.|author=Walter Felscher|publisher=[http://www.youth.net/memories/welcome.html Memories of the 1940's mailing list archive]|url=http://www.youth.net/memories/hypermail/0313.html|date=1997-01-27|accessdate=2006-09-28}}</ref>