Differences in Nutritional Habits or State Propaganda? Food supply and ethnic groups in Transylvania during World War II

Sárándi, Tamás (2024) Differences in Nutritional Habits or State Propaganda? Food supply and ethnic groups in Transylvania during World War II. CENTRAL EUROPEAN HORIZONS, 4 (1). pp. 46-68. ISSN 2732-0456

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Abstract

The study examines nutritional habits in Transylvania and their ethnical projection through a specific case from the Second World War. The related Hungarian official standpoint is also investigated in order to establish whether the government’s statement covers an everyday reality or should rather be considered propaganda. The study is ­carried out on the Romanian minority living in Northern Transylvania in 1942 at the time of requisitions. At the centre of the investigation is a sentence of the Hungarian government and the truth behind it. The main aim is to establish whether there were any kind of differences in nutritional habits among the different ethnic groups living in Transylvania at the time and whether there was any truth to the statement that Romanians only fed upon maize and had no use of wheat. It is in fact an attempt to answer these questions with statistical methods, using all available agricultural information of the mentioned period.

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