The Home Front as a lesson

[loreta]

There's nothing surprising about what's happening today because it's a repetition of what happened during the Second World War. It's the same program: to make people suffer. The PTB have no imagination, we know that. They're repeating themselves, like little robots.

I read a lot about the Home Front in Britain to learn how people experienced the hard hand of the PTB in terms of prices, lack of food, restrictions, loss of jobs, closure of factories and small shops and of course when the Germans bombed Britain the immense suffering of thousands of people who lost everything. Not forgetting how the PTB also had total contempt for the soldiers, who suffered from the lack of calories and so many other things. Propaganda, social engineering, lies in the media, everything we are experiencing now was already experienced by the British in 1941 and throughout the war, and everywhere else.

There was a shortage of everything in the shops, and there was absolute control over the entire population, at every level. Reading about the Home Front is a lesson to be learned from the experience of others, a reflection on how war (and we are at war) is a game for the PTB, an experiment because once again we are rats for them, in a laboratory.

Reading about the Home Front is instructive because it's a mirror of what's to come. Every time I go into a shop I cringe to see how high the prices have risen, how shameful it is, whether in 1941 or now, to treat people in this way, with contempt and almost hatred. There's no denying that they want to make us suffer and feed off that suffering.

Reflecting on the Home Front period is essential to prepare ourselves mentally for what is to come, and also to communicate in some way with the experience of others, which is educational, fascinating and rich.
There are many accounts of the Home Front, especially diaries written by women. I'm currently reading one that's one of the most interesting, because it deals with the situation on several levels: economic, social, political and military and personal. It's perhaps one of the hardest books because it lets us see what war is, and the tragedy the world was going through at that time.

I am reading this book, now.

 

[loreta]

The Home Front is more than a moment of war in England. It was also an experiment by the PTB to torture people... in their own way.

Let's say that the first torture is war. And then during the war, at the very beginning, the PTB used a torture that is used with prisoners: preventing the victim from sleeping. You had to think about it. Of course, the citizens knew that German planes were coming to bomb the island. So every citizen had to carry a gas mask with him at all times. Then to listen out for the siren that would warn people that German planes were coming to bomb the island, and also to listen out for the siren that would warn people that the danger was out.

The sirens sounded mainly at night, when people were asleep. And they sounded several times. People then had to get up and run for cover into bunkers prepared for this situation. Many times the sirens would sound false alarms. Too many false alarms.

People were sleep-deprived, exhausted, stressed and malnourished. Perfect to make them accept anything, like a lack of food in the shops, or a diet with almost no protein. During the war, a person was allowed one egg a month. There was a shortage of butter, sugar, vegetables and fat. Virginia Woolf complained in her diary about the lack of fat. The lack of meat.

Lack of sleep, but also bombing of London and the surrounding area, destruction of houses, deaths, tragedies, and deaths also due to the compulsory black-out everywhere.

(But Winston Churchill always had his Whiskey and his Cuban cigars, and also good food. Winston Churchill did not lose weight during the war. He remained as fat and as porky as he had been at the start of the war.)

When you read the Home Front diaries, there are two readings. One is the diary itself, day by day, the difficulties experienced and above all the courage and strength. The other reading is what we read between the lines, our knowledge of ponerology, of how the PTB works, the Agenda, the methods, the social engineering. We are able to see because we are on the outside and because we have also lived through the plandemic and read about totalitarianism.

In fact, as I've already said, these books, more than history books, are a mirror on us. And perhaps of our future.

Maybe two years ago (but time flies!) I read the latest book by Erik Larsson, an author I really like. It's about Britain and the Second World War during the Home Front from several fronts, like a kaleidoscope. Fascinating stuff.

 

[loreta]

I've just read one of the best books, a diary, about the Home Front which takes place in Guernsey in the Chanel Islands. A few years ago, I didn't even know there were British islands near England and I certainly didn't know that in 1940 these islands were occupied by the Germans.

Here's the book I'm talking about.



Today we know a little more about Guernsey, as there has been a film based on a novel set during the Nazi occupation of the islands. It's this book, which is very good and shows just a little, if any, how the people of Guernsey in particular suffered for 5 years. This is the Guernsey novel.



The diary of Violet is both very sad and also very happy, by which I mean that it shows not only the positive character of the inhabitants of the island, but above all the absolutely interesting character of the woman who wrote the diary, day after day, during those 5 years of German occupation. It's sad because the reader witnesses what it's like to live under totalitarianism. It's a mild totalitarianism, but it's becoming increasingly harsh, because in the last two years, there was a shortage of food, there was almost starvation. The Nazis took everything, including food, and forbade people to grow crops.

Violet Corey's look is extraordinary. She lets us see everything that's going on, the character of the islanders, the rumours, the restrictions, the mental torture that the Nazis used on people, the difficulties, the soldiers, the thefts, fear, the insecurity and the joy. All of it together. I think this diary is marvellous because it's as if an ancestor were speaking to us with all the knowledge of those years and beckoning us from the past to tell us how we can survive difficult times, adapt to them and above all make us see that we, in the present, are living in opulence. Makes us think about how we should be grateful for what we have.

These days I was with Violet everywhere, in everything I did, in everything I had, in the kitchen where I could have all the eggs I wanted, fat and butter, thinking of Violet's time when the islanders could only have one egg a month, no fat at all and at one point no butter, bread or milk.

She did not stop to remind me to be grateful! And to be happy, and to be strong, like her, and gentle with others, like she was.

Violet's quick-witted, conquering spirit makes this diary a worthy addition to the Home Front diaries. An important place. We must not forget that these islands were completely forgotten by Great Britain, during the war and it is said that Churchill said "let them die", referring to the Germans, but knowing Churchill we can guess that he was also thinking of the inhabitants of the islands. Oh yes.

It is a war diary, written by a woman who was a farmer, surely more important than the war diary of Simone de Beauvoir. All the diaries written by ordinary people, especially women, during the Home Front are great life lessons. And they are fascinating.

And also, I think, and I think that's important, it is to give voice to these people who have things to say, from the past, for this present. For us. They are ancestors and to read them it is to listen and to pray.

 

[Aliana]

Thank you for writing about these books!! I loved that book by Mary Ann Schaeffer. The movie less so, but it's difficult to bring some things to the screen without losing some of the preciousness of the novel. I am so often grateful these days, when i can go buy groceries without worrying about whether i will find what i need or be able to afford it - knowing well that so many do not have such luxuries now..and many more will suffer in the future. These books remind us to be grateful for everything, and to appreciate what our ancestors had to endure so that we might enjoy what we have now.