Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize "A superb and immensely important book."―Jonathan Yardley; The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945; but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets; but the reality was quite different. Across Europe; landscapes had been ravaged; entire cities razed; and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted―such as police; media; transport; and local and national government―were either entirely absent or compromised. Crime rates soared; economies collapsed; and whole populations hovered on the brink of starvation.. In Savage Continent; Keith Lowe describes a continent where individual Germans and collaborators were rounded up and summarily executed; where concentration camps were reopened; and violent anti-Semitism was reborn. In some of the monstrous acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen; tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands. Savage Continent is the story of post–war Europe; from the close of the war right to the establishment of an uneasy stability at the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries; Savage Continent is the chronicle of a world gone mad; the standard history of post–World War II Europe for years to come.
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