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Anti-Semitism by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:56:11 AM EST

I read a book of diaries from the Mass Observation movement of the postwar period and it was rife in Britain in the 40s and 50s. It seems that the Holocaust didn't enter the country's consciousness until much later, for example, because people just didn't care.

Having said that you expect better from literature, and it's not something I've come across in C20th books before.

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The reason why they didn't care in by jump the ladder (4.00 / 2) #11 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 06:24:52 AM EST

Immediate post-war Britain probably was they'd been through an extremely hard and difficult time themselves what with the bombing, the uncertainty, the rationing and their sons and husbands being conscripted and killed. Plus it wasn't exactly easy living in austerity post-war Britain where the rationing was even worse than after the war.

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Good explanation ..... by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #12 Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:24:09 AM EST

.... but by the mid 50s it just doesn't cut it as an excuse.

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Rationing only ended in 1954 by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:56:00 AM EST

You don't really recover from having cities flattened , large numbers of young men killed, and massive debt repayments overnight.

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: You can explain it like that. by Tonatiuh (2.00 / 0) #14 Tue May 06, 2008 at 03:24:21 AM EST

I will grant you that.
But explaining is not excusing, the rampant anti-Semitism in European societies is something shameful that has still to be fully acknowledged, specially by the triumphant countries in WWII (the history of Jews in France pre WWII is something chilling, and it seems here in the UK the situation was not entirely devoid of problems).

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