anarchy erupted in Europe

[mouse]

The year of vengeance: How neighbours turned on each other as anarchy erupted in Europe in the aftermath of WWIIBy Dominic Sandbrook

Just imagine living in a world in which law and order have broken down completely: a world in which there is no authority, no rules and no sanctions.

In the bombed-out ruins of Europe’s cities, feral gangs scavenge for food. Old men are murdered for their clothes, their watches or even their boots. Women are mercilessly raped, many several times a night.

Neighbour turns on neighbour; old friends become deadly enemies. And the wrong surname, even the wrong accent, can get you killed.

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares. But for hundreds of millions of Europeans, many of them now gentle, respectable pensioners, this was daily reality in the desperate months after the end of World War II.


Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119589/The-year-vengeance.html#ixzz1q1P0fZGw

[mouse]

this is well worth the read..
.of the realities of europe after the war
this is not the heroic blood sweat and tears...this is the reality of rape,,murder vengence and mahem
this is the reality of the human rights act....not the justice fleeing of the guilty of today
this is the reality of hitlers legacy that europe inherited and we in the uk thankfully escaped

[markindurham]

Indeed - a good read. One shudders at the atrocities that were committed

[fretslider]

Its something that is overlooked as an inconvenient truth. Some British officers raped Italian women during the Italian campaign, but you don't hear about that from anybody except those who were there.

France, Belgium and all the other occupied countries had their collaborators and their resistance movements. Throw in communism and its an unholy scrabble for power and influence.

One need only look at Iraq or Libya to see how it descends into barbarity - and our people seem surprised by it.

Had Hitler invaded it would have been the same here, the channel islands have experience.....