Savage Continent torrent

The Second World War left Europe in chaos.
Landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities
razed and more than 35 million people killed.
Across most of the continent, the institutions
that we now take for granted - such as the
police, the media, transport, local and national
government - were either entirely absent or
hopelessly compromised. Crime rates soared,
economies collapsed, and the European
population hovered on the brink of starvation.