[bobthepanda]

A lot of the old European stuff was also bombed out in the 40s. I would imagine that in the postwar era, getting everyone under roofs quickly would've been the priority, and there wasn't possibly enough wood to do that for all of Europe.

[carlosjobim]

The amount of destruction from bombing Europe is greatly exaggerated I think. Most of towns and cities were hardly touched.

[mejutoco]

I don‘t think it was exaggerated when Europe needed the Marshal plan to reconstruct. You can check the scale in dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

In many cities bombs are still routinely found and deactivated. In Berlin, for example, a few blocks of Kreuzberg are now and then emptied (go do sth for the day) by the authorities to deactivate ww2 bombs.

It also sounds a bit insensitive.

[SSLy]

Maybe in Sweden. Certainly not between Rhein and Dnieper.

[fmajid]

Beautiful coastal cities like Rotterdam or Le Havre were bombed to smithereens.

[carlosjobim]

Europe is enormous.

[bobthepanda]

There’s also the second part of that statement; the need to house people quickly.

Even untouched places like Sweden had to deal with housing masses coming to cities due to postwar urbanization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme