GERMAN OCCUPATION
THE TERROR OF OCCUPATION THE PROBLEMS OF DAILY LIFE
AN OCCUPATION-ERA SONG

Excerpt from the most popular song from the time of the German occupation, describing food smuggling (rhymes in the original).

It is dark outside,
The train is crowded,
Let the romance begin,
He embraces the girl,
She’s fat as a boar,
She hides meat under her coat

Now there’s war,
You have to trade to survive,
When I sell some ham,
Lard or blood sausage,
I get to drink some hooch.

T. SZAROTA, “OKUPOWANEJ WARSZAWY DZIEŃ POWSZEDNI,” (“THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF OCCUPIED WARSAW) WARSAW 2010, P. 191