Times have changed, No Looting during WW2

[Boehlertaught]

Watching the History channel last night; a show about London during WW2...and the Germans use of the V2 rocket. The scene was a street in town filled with shops...all the street level viewing windows were blown out by the rockets bomb blast. Folks were walking around viewing the damage...not one person even went close to the stores...no looting! Could this happen in any city today?

 

[Jim Corrigan]

Didn't some soldiers in WWII loot?

 

[Boehlertaught]

Oh I'm sure it happened. I was just surprised at the scene in the video. Folks had all the chances in the world to take things from the shops. But no one did.

 

[Perplexed]

They may have seen the camera crew and decided to behave themselves, as film cameras in those days were hard not to see coming - not like today with cell phones and such. Looting was rife during WW2 as well as in all other wars, no matter where or when it took place.

 

[caojyn]

they're british, they're too polite to loot lol

 

[Stan Upchurch]

I can remember a time here in Norman, Oklahoma that you could lay a $100.00 bill in the bed of a pickup and park it on mainstreet all day... i told my father in law thatr it couldn't be done.
He proved it. The year was 1969.

 

[been]

You loot, British soldiers shoot.

 

[Mitch Rapp]

Didn't some soldiers in WWII loot?

Once we were inside Germany it wasn't looting, it was spoils of war, and was allowed and legal.