Aprovizionarea cu hrană a Sibiului în anii celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial
Food Supply in Sibiu During World War II

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the situation of the food supply in Sibiu given the war conditions of the years 1939–1945. The author shows that the population of Sibiu increased suddenly after the Vienna Diktat from 30 August 1940, due to which Romania was obligated to give up the northern part of Transylvania to Hungary, because the University of Cluj, with over 3 000 people, moved here. Simultaneously, many refugees came from the ceded area. On 22 June 1941 Romania went to war along with Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union. The state of war caused difficulties in supplying food to the city’s population. The paper presents the changes that took place in supply and consumption, price evolution, consumption limits, food quality, the population’s reaction to the shortcomings in supply.Another aspect presented is the situation of public consumption supply: entertainment venues (restaurants, terraces, pubs etc.), as well as the canteens for pupils and students, for military units, for civil and military hospitals, which were numerous in the city on the Cibin river during the war. The author tries to outline the specifics of the supply and consumption situation in Sibiu and to compare it to the state of affairs of those years in other urban centers throughout the country and even from cities in Germany, the great power that dominated Europe in those years.The author concludes that the supply of Sibiu in the years 1939–1945 was seriously disturbed during the war years, although there were no battles in the city. Authorities did not find solutions for the satisfactory supply and equitable distribution of food, the lives of the people of Sibiu being thus much harder than those of the inhabitants of other less industrialized urban centers.

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