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Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Black Market and the Second World War
An off-duty nurse does her best to help the many wounded, for aside from the bomb's own shrapnel, flying glasses and shattered wine bottles of inflicted terrible injuries on the revolution. The selfless nurse has been robbed. Corpse's too have been stripped of watches, wedding rings and jewelry. And I think that brings us to something quite interesting about the Blitz spirit and how we tend to think of the Blitz spirit. We tend to think that when civilization is interrupted, our baser instincts will emerge sort of Lord of the Flies style - which is not true.
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