Keeping Rabbits

Keeping rabbits After the German army surrendered, life was tough the army had employed many to do road work and repairing bridges, the allies had bombed. With freedom of movement to roam in the night followed theft of food items like the man who stormed into a bakery waving a rusty Mauser gun stealing bread; the coal depot needed security guards as did the sausage producer. The police force was reduced, and many officers had been fired since they had been Nazi sympathizers during the war of occupation; mind, many trickled back in uniform when trespasses were overlooked. Of serious crimes, there was one who assaulted women going home late, knocking them down and stealing underwear, which back then was a bombastic affair yet an intimate garment; the newspaper reporting the case wrote, ladies' items had been stolen In our time of need, my mother’s brother gave her two white rabbits, the rabbits soon became many sweet bunnies, and before we knew the flat was full. A lady, from the posh part of town, bought the rabbits her action had not been charitable, she was later seen wearing a white fur coat.