I'm reminded about a book I read by a WW2 GI who landed at Anzio and fought his way all the way up the Italian boot, then across France into Germany. He said that in Germany when each German village was cleared of the Nazis, the people were immediately out cleaning the streets, etc. He said, meanwhile back in Italy they were still waiting for help to arrive.
(There were only a handful of Anzio GI's that survived that march to Germany)
They should have put up a sign , FREE WATER
in the wake of the hurricane and were turned over to
“central government” who failed to deliver it.
How do we know this was after the hurricane. There is no debris anywhere in sight.
“He said that in Germany when each German village was cleared of the Nazis, the people were immediately out cleaning the streets, etc. He said, meanwhile back in Italy they were still waiting for help to arrive.”
That’s exactly what I experienced in Texas. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The people who lived there were very dependent on the government. Many permanently relocated to Texas. A lot of people were stranded at shelters in New Orleans while a lot full of buses sat unused within walking distance.
In September 2005, (just a month later) Hurricane Rita caused a mass exodus from Houston. I personally helped dozens of people with no transportation to get out of town. I took them to shelters in College Station before joining my family at a nearby Christian Camp where a family member had made arrangements. Because the hurricane passed mainly to the east of town, we were able to return the next day. When I did I saw locals clearing the roads with their own tractors. Not too many people were waiting around for the government to show up.
Unfortunately, Houston has had an uptick in violent crime ever since we got several thousand transplants from Louisiana.
The black market that existed in Europe during WW2 was the worst in Italy. Italians stole everything and anything they could.
ever see the videos or pics of Germans sorting the MILLIONS of bricks in the rubble of their cities and towns to rebuild with?
