We in Britain are right to be proud of our record in the war. Yet it is time that we faced up to some of the unsettling moral ambiguities of those bloody, desperate years
The Year Of Vengeance: How Neighbours Turned On Each Other As Anarchy Erupted In Europe In The Aftermath Of WWII -- Daily Mail
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.
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My Comment: The stories that my father and mother told me of what had happened during this time were truly horrific. As to those Brits who want to atone for what happened after the war .... my suggestion is that they should start with this.