Use for the wartime-to-postwar transition; verify production orders, dates, and quantities with government and trade records.
The war chapter treats distilling capacity as strategic infrastructure and a catalyst for corporate restructuring.
Mitenbuler describes wartime conversion of distilleries to industrial alcohol and restrictions on beverage production. Shortages encouraged blends, stock management and price conflict, while postwar companies traded brands and consolidated portfolios. Verify the dates and temporary beverage-production allowances before treating this as an uninterrupted shutdown.
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Chapter Thirteen — Cocktails for Hitler
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 149–154. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.
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Evidence
Mitenbuler describes wartime conversion of distilleries to industrial alcohol and restrictions on beverage production. Shortages encouraged blends, stock management and price conflict, while postwar companies traded brands and consolidated portfolios. Verify the dates and temporary beverage-production allowances before treating this as an uninterrupted shutdown.
Locator
Locator type: Page
Start: 149
End: 154
Source section: Chapter Thirteen — Cocktails for Hitler
Context
The war chapter treats distilling capacity as strategic infrastructure and a catalyst for corporate restructuring.
Annotation
Use for the wartime-to-postwar transition; verify production orders, dates, and quantities with government and trade records.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 149–154. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.