Value points :
• Conditions worsened day by day during the war
• Half a pound of coffee cost eighty guilders
• Lot of trading in the black market
• Long queues for vegetables and all kinds of goods
• Break-ins, murders, thefts, swindling -daily occurrences
• Doctors could not visit patients.
• Cars and bikes were stolen.
• Never left homes for fear of things being stolen
• Police and night watchmen were getting alert.
• Space crunch and no family time.
Detailed Answer :
Kitty, Anne’s dairy reveals a lot about the prevailing economic and social conditions which were worsening day by day during the war. Burglaries, thefts, breaking were all very common. There was scarcity of eatables which made people stand in queues for vegetables and other kinds of goods. Little children used to break the windows to steal whatever they could lay their hand on. People ware torn and worn out clothes as they didn’t have proper clothes. Men were being shipped off to Germany. People wore falling ill but the doctors could not attend them because their vehicles used to get stolen the moment they turned their backs. Children were under nourished or sick in the absence of proper food There was chaos everywhere. Prices of various things had risen. Black-marketing was in full swing. Even the policeman and night watchmen had got into the acts of thefts and burglaries due to scarcity. Wages had been frozen so almost everyone had started deceiving others. So the combination were shifting from bad to worse.
