Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (96 page)

Virgili, Fabrice
Vischi, Arnaldo
Vistula, Operation
Vojvodina
Volhynia

Jews
torture/killing

Voronezh
Voute, Peter
Vrettakos, Leonidas
Vries, Karel de
Vukovic, Dusan
Vyborg
Vyshinski, Andrei

Walloons
Walsh, William
War Child Committee, Norway
Warsaw

destruction in
Jews

water

contaminated; plot to poison water supplies
freezing
lack/denial of
waterboarding

Weiss, George
Werth, Alexander
Western tolerance
White Terror, Greece
widows
Wiesner, Zden
k
Wildflecken camp
Wilno
see also
Vilnius
Wola Ostrowiecka
Wolfsburg
Wollny, Günther
women

abortions
displaced
emancipation and voting rights in Greece
German: with ‘foreign’ babies; through marriage; pregnant German women in Poland
giving birth to children of German fathers
married to Germans
in Polish camps after the war
and postwar myth-making
rape of
see
rape
shearing and stripping of
at Strahov
treatment throughout Europe after the war
venereal disease
vengeance on
widows

Women’s Auxiliary Service, Italy
Woodhouse, Chris
World War II
see
Second World War
Wrocław
Wysocko Wy
ne

Xoxe, Koçi

Yalta conference/Agreement
Yugoslavia
see also
Croatia/Croatians

British/Soviet influences
Communist Partisans
and the conflict of myths
death toll in war
destruction in
ending of the war xv
ethnic conflict; and the Bleiburg tragedy; and covering of ethnic problems; historical background
expulsion of Italians
German prisoners of war
Hungarian massacre of Serbians
intelligence service
and Italy
massacre sites (1945)
politically motivated violence
positive assessment of the war
postwar unrest
rhetoric of brotherhood and unity
rural destruction
Soviet-held prisoners of war
as a symbol of pan-European violence
Tito’s victory speech
Ustashas
vagrant children
violence

Zagórzany
Zagreb
Zajec, Milan
Zaks, Karol
Zápotocký, Antonin
Zawadka Morochowska/ Zavadka Morochivska massacre
Zdanowicz, Olga
Zengos, Theodoros
Žerjavi
, Vladimir
Zervas, Napoleon
Zgoda camp (
wi
tochłowice)
Zionism
Zuckerman, Yitzhak ‘Antek’
Žuvintas
Zyklon-B

1. The ruins of Warsaw, January 1946: ‘something … so vicious I can’t believe it’. Poland’s capital was just one of thousands of towns and cities devastated by the war.

2. The war created a catastrophic housing shortage throughout Europe. This woman and her children have set up home in a cave in Naples along with hundreds of others. The UNRRA poster on the panel behind her promises ‘Food, health and hope’.

3. Former forced labourers return home after the war. The mixed feelings of these Greek men, as their transport ship approaches Piraeus, are evident in their faces.

4. The fate of sixty-year-old Filip Paluch was all too common after the war. On his return to Poland from a concentration camp he found his home gone, and his family all killed. He is pictured here on the road outside the village of Potworów, where he has been begging for food.

THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON EUROPE’S CHILDREN

5. Bosnian partisan Bogdan Belaković, aged about ten. The last of an extended family of fifty-five, Bogdan was killed fighting in the final stages of the war.

6. A survivor of the famine in Greece.