Re: worst day in ww2

"Andrew Clark" <aclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"E.F.Schelby" <schelby@xxxxxxxx> wrote

First of all, when my mother struggled (with me in tow) to get to
Dresden in 1946, she did so to find a missing great aunt and her
husband.

An example from 1946, after the war had ended, when there was a much larger
refugee and food shortage problem, and after the German government had been
at least partially dismantled, cannot be used in the context of 1945, when
German civil defence and civilian welfare services were still strong and
well-organised, and food supplies for Germans were being maintained by
starving the rest of Europe.

Let's see: a two-front war, large losses, retreating armies,
around-the-clock area-bombing, and Germans are living the good
life? How come the persons in my old 1944 photos look like
stick-people? The kids have no flesh on their arms and legs, ribs
are prominent, elbows and knees bony and ugly... Not much resistance
left by the time 1945/46 came around.

.

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