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P.O. Box 235, Whittlesea, Vic. 3757 • Registered by Australia Post, Publication No. VBH 8051 ISSN 2208-2247 Telephone: Copy 8401 3330 Telephne/Fax: Ads 9716 2267 Website: www.towncrierwhittlesea.wordpress.com MARCH 2018 VOLUME 327 Good Friday 30th March Easter Monday 2nd April This hands-on space Get out, get up and Food glorious food! Kids rule! Boogie in The Harmony Stage is all about learning get active! Vault Some of Melbourne’s the disco, stretch out celebrates the diversity something new, through a parkour most delicious food with yoga, kick back of talent in City of whether it’s cutting course, test your aim trucks will be on listening to a story, Whittlesea, filling the edge technology with archery or try hand to serve tasty fly high in the circus festival with music or a timeless craft. your favourite sports… treats all day. Sample or enjoy the Sticks and performance. A you can even learn delights from some Stones Broken Bones series of curated dance the secrets to dancing of our local food theatre show. workshops will get like a bee! manufacturers you grooving on the and producers. dance floor. GETTING TO Festival site located just Ride your bicycle to For parking and traffic 500m from South Morang get a free tune up information visit THE FESTIVAL train station. and win prizes. www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au Town Crier March 2018 Editor:- Betty Harvey 8401 3330 FOR COPY 8401 3330 Advertising/Accounts:- Email: [email protected] Sue Ewert 9716 2267 FOR ADVERTISING Production Assistant/Reporter:- Ph/Fax:- 9716 2267 Karen Mace 9715 0674 Email:[email protected] Invoices:- Leila Leaford P.O. 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I cannot imagine that out of the WAR COMES TO UKRAINE hundreds of thousands of those who fled during the war that even a ‘Barbarized warfare bereft of any legal or moral constraints.’ single person would have fled for economic reasons, even though life (‘The Eastern Front’ by Professor John and Ljubica Erickson) was impossibly difficult. We were under no misapprehension; we were all fleeing for our lives. Millions of people died. Possibly more civilians Our town, with a population of approximately five thousand, was died after the war as a result of starvation and exposure than during a backwater, out of the path of any major battles and consequently the actual conflict. Villages, towns and cities were flattened. occupied by lesser troops (German allies, as well as a regiment of central Asian soldiers who had switched sides en masse to Hitler). All Dams, power stations and transport networks were destroyed as part these were not considered by the Germans to be good enough to go into of the ‘scorched earth’ policy. Firstly, by fleeing Soviets to deprive the battle, though they were considered good enough to occupy and control Germans of these assets, and then by the Germans as they fled. In us (they were later used as cannon fodder). Their lack of discipline the end there was nothing, no water, gas, electricity, bridges, buildings made them particularly dangerous. They acted outside any rules of war or houses. People dug holes and lived in them and extraordinarily, (which of course never applied in the East). For example, they brought many survived. In one area we passed through, people were cooking big wooden crates into our house and stripped it bare. They loaded with straw because of the lack of suitable fuel. Their houses were full everything they could, even our Christmas decorations, children’s skis of smoke – it was pitiful. It was either that or eat their potatoes raw. and skates. They sent these back to their families. What annoyed my This deprivation went on for many years after the war. People had to mother most was that when later we were fleeing through their country do without as all resources were put into rebuilding the infrastructure they looked very prosperous. They had so much more to start with, yet almost from scratch. some of them robbed those of us who had almost nothing. Next Month: Shot At! They also lived off us. They slaughtered our animals for their rd consumption, including horses. Particularly cruel was when they took THE NEXT TOWN CRIER IS DUE OUT TUESDAY 3 APRIL and killed a family’s only dairy cow. One could only imagine what effect DEADLINE FOR ALL COPY, ADS & ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING th this dispossession had on families with babies or young children. COPY IS NO LATER THAN THURSDAY 15 MARCH Maybe, because of great distances and supply problems, this was a common practise by armies in the East. They were like locusts. They lived off the land and the local people, consuming everything in their path. First the retreating army, followed by the advancing army. Then in reverse, sometimes several times over the same area. When an army stopped for the day, the first thing they did was to round up and slaughter any animals they could find for their consumption and rob families of any food they had. The civilians barely had enough to feed Rae Johnston themselves, let alone an army. Professional Intimo Bra Fit Specialist & Stylist The occupying army also had the job of dealing with partisans (civilians Book now for a measurement & fit to find the perfect bra for you. trained as saboteurs). These partisans were regarded as heroes by Size 8 to 24 A to G Cup many in the West.