This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
The recriminations go on. "This German girl has stolen my husband," leads Evadne Price's latest bulletin from Germany for the People:
She is twenty two and lovely, or so [my husband] says, and he wants to stay permanently with her in Germany. If I divorce him he will marry her. He is confident the ban on marrying Germans will soon be lifted. If not, Else is content to live with him; she will take him on any terms. He says only the German woman understands love in its fullest sense. But he adds: I didn't want this to happen. I didn't mean it. It began because I was bored and lonely ...
Evadne adds: "Nothing will alter my opinion of fraternisation, which I oppose because until I meet a German male or female with the slightest sense of war guilt, I will not be friendly with the race ... the women of Germany understand nothing outside sex. They use sex as they use money. To buy what they want. They walk about as unclothed as the weather will allow. They have learned how to appear naked even when they are dressed, and all a man needs is a chocolate bar or a few cigarettes and he can have any one of them. They are deliberately contaminating our soldiers by introducing them to sex abnormalities ..."
Okay, Allan, I don't usually post because I don't want your comment roll to look like a stalker's desk calendar --but, "sex abnormalities?"
Posted by: Erik Lund | Wednesday, 04 November 2009 at 01:03 PM
Yes, Evadne Price - what a piece of work. BTW, don't feel inhibited about commenting - all stalkers welcome!
Posted by: Alan Allport | Wednesday, 04 November 2009 at 02:00 PM