Baltic Sea Alcohol Smuggling: The Rise of Illegal Trade in the Interwar Period
The eyes of even the most hardened border guards widened when in the fall of 1925 a German ship that had been raised from the ground was pulled into Liepāja’s port. More than 104,000 liters of contraband alcohol were found in its cargo. Almost 11,000 black tin cans. A few days earlier, a similar but … Read more