Britain's World War Two crime wave
Episode 49 min 54s

Britain's World War Two crime wave

From The History Hour BBC World Service

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)

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