How was life in 1942?

Question

How was life in 1942?

Answer 1

I remember my grandparents talking about gas rationing, sugar rationing, and WWII.

My grandfather fought in North Africa and Italy, got captured and thrown into a German concentration camp the last 6 months of the war.

Life wasn't very good during that time.

Answer 2

Boring.  They might have not known anything, but day to day living can be boring...laced with some excitement here and there.

Depending on where you were in the world at the time, you could have been too worried trying to survive hunger, a concentration camp, or too sick to be bored.

Answer 3

maybe hard because of wars and some ppor life conditions

Answer 4

Hard for a lot of people and of course for the ones who happened to be so unlucky to finish up either being a casualty of war or send to a concentration camp very sad.So life in 1942 was not that grand.

Answer 5

B*tchin'. I wish I'd lived back then.

Answer 6

to start with there was no computers, no tv, radios were the mode of communication in conjunction with telephones which weren't to reliable, to make overseas call you had to book your call in advance, most food products were on ration, had a book of stamps which determined how much food items you could buy,  BUT the average wage was about 5 uk pounds per week, bicycles were the mode of transport, very few families had a car, petrol (gasoline) was rations  and ppl couldn't afford to buy anyhow.

after dark there was  "blackouts"we couldn't let light show out through our windows, vehicles had to have a device fitter to there light so the light wouldn't shine upwards, this was to prevent the enemy aircraft from seeing the vehicles, some answers here reflect that some of you would have liked to live in the 40s, every night we had air raids we never knew if we would see the next sunrise. That is a fraction of life in the 40s, I'm sure you can imagine the full story. let me tell you.    you live a life of luxury

Answer 7

pretty good, how's life in 2008?

Answer 8

Rampant with sexuality.

Answer 9

Sehr Gut!