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Hunger Winter

It is winter. It is freezing cold. It's snowing. Public transportation increased, the path is delayed or falls from the same, the ranges on the highways, the traffic jams together. This is annoying, and is therefore also a lot of grumbling.

is easy to overlook the fact that we have, despite the current harsh winter, the heating works, that the shops are open and that we have enough to eat.

In the winter of 1946/47 was different. An extremely hard winter were the consequences of war and expulsion.

There was little heating let alone houses. Coal had to be stolen. The food ranged issued back and forward it, so it was necessary also to other procurement methods. Anyone who had moral qualms about starved.

The management of the Allies was the situation overwhelmed. By the destroyed infrastructure, it was impossible to transport food and fuel in sufficient quantities to those in need. In general, there was not enough, even with the allies itself Only the U.S. was not affected by the consequences of the war and were able to send relief supplies without our own people starving.

series, the people starved and froze to death. Those who had no family, was lost. For the family members could be sent to steal the coals, go to hamster trip to visit the black market or are in the queues to be classified, for the few to get hold of ration card related products.

The authors describe a thorough and professional, the political and social situation of the immediate post-war period. So it is understandable how this could have on the famine.

is very vivid presentation of the inserted field reports of eyewitnesses. Comes very close to the despair of a people, for example, if you read how a couple can celebrate Christmas with her only a single baby because it freezes in the cold at home. The reports I really got under the skin. We should more often even realize how good we have it actually ...

This successful and highly recommended mix of sound factual information and narration exciting story reads like a novel.

Häusser Alexander, Gordian Maugg : Hunger Winter. Germany's humanitarian disaster 1946/47. ISBN 9783548610054
, Flexible Binding: 224 pages, published by Ullstein University Press, 01/01/2011