What were the living conditions in world war 2 in europe?

My mother-in-law was from Holland. She told me many things very horrifying. All her family are Catholics. At first the Nazi's were just against the Polish People and the Jewish faith. Then the march on Holland began. Nazi's took over all the village that she was from. Many were made to work for them. Any place that held any wealth was taken over. Food was taken away from family and given to the armies. Eventually the supply of good was gone and believe or not the only supply of food left was tulips. Many and most of all people survived winter eating tulips bulbs. Eventually Nazi's send Catholic people to concentration camps. She had a couple of Aunts that are Nuns and 3 Uncles that are Priest. They were sent to Concentration Camps for the believes. Her aunts were raped by the Nazi's and I don't know what happened to her Uncles now one knows, I would assume they were murdered.

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My mother is from Denmark, and she was alive during the occupation of Denmark by the Germans during WWII. She said that there were curfews, food limitations, and "lights out", which was when you had to put dark sheets or other opaque things in front of your windows at night. But that's just Denmark, which was surely not France or England.

If you want a general idea, watch a movie or two about WWII, and that ought to give you a fair idea. Otherwise, you might want to frame your question a little more specifically, such as, "What were living conditions like in X country, or X-world countries, in Europe?"

A terrible film with a great set of actors/actresses in it is The Man Who Cried. I'd suggest you take a look at it

Pretty grim. I was only a child, in Britain, so it didn't have much impact on me personally, as it fell on the mums to manage. Food and clothing was rationed and you had books of coupons that allowed you only so much butter, sugar, eggs etc., per person. The allowance was one egg per person per week, for example!

You couldn't buy more, no matter how wealthy you were, so there was a thriving "black market",where "Spivs" would sell you stuff "under the counter", but this was considered very unpatriotic as well as illegal.

My mother worked in a grocery store and I remember her having to clip out all the little coupons for the bacon, cheese, fats, etc.

She would unpick old jumpers to knit new ones for me and unpick the seams of adult garments to make me dresses and coats.

People grew their own vegetables and kept chickens and rabbits to kill for the pot.

Interestingly, we were far fitter and healthier on this diet than the obese children of today and, as sweets were rationed until about 1953 we had better teeth!

I don't remember any feelings of hunger or deprivation and women became very inventive with recipes etc., making a meal out of one potato, one carrot,and no meat.

Coal was also rationed as everything was geared up for the war effort and so the winters were very cold but we got through it.

Sadly, my father, who was in the Royal Air Force, did not and died as a prisoner of the Japanese and I do not remember him which makes me very sad, but that's another story......

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It depends on where in Europe you were. Some places were not effected very much, and others were totally devastated.

Terrible. Famine was widespread and the war worsened everything.