Britain's World War Two crime wave
The History Hour - Een podcast door BBC World Service - Zaterdagen
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During times of crisis in the UK, World War Two is often remembered as a period when the country rallied together to fight a common enemy. But as Simon Watts finds out from the BBC archives, there was a crime wave during the war years, with a massive increase in looting and black marketeering. Also in the programme, the first 3D printers, plus a black policeman recalls the 1980 Miami riots, Hong Kong's city within a city and explaining autism.PHOTO: A government poster from World War Two (Getty Images)