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A lot of the old European stuff was also bombed out in the 40s. I would imagine that in the postwar era, getting everyone under roofs quickly would've been the
by bobthepanda 3y ago
A lot of the old European stuff was also bombed out in the 40s. I would imagine that in the postwar era, getting everyone under roofs quickly would've been the priority, and there wasn't possibly enough wood to do that for all of Europe.
- carlosjobim 3y agoThe amount of destruction from bombing Europe is greatly exaggerated I think. Most of towns and cities were hardly touched.
- SSLy 3y agoMaybe in Sweden. Certainly not between Rhein and Dnieper.
- carlosjobim 3y agoEurope is enormous.
- fmajid 3y agoBeautiful coastal cities like Rotterdam or Le Havre were bombed to smithereens.
- mejutoco 3y agoI don‘t think it was exaggerated when Europe needed the Marshal plan to reconstruct. You can check the scale in dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan In many cities bombs are still routinely found and deactivated. In Berlin, for example, a few blocks of Kreuzberg are now and then emptied (go do sth for the day) by the authorities to deactivate ww2 bombs. It also sounds a bit insensitive.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThere’s also the second part of that statement; the need to house people quickly. Even untouched places like Sweden had to deal with housing masses coming to cities due to postwar urbanization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme