New Article: More than Just a Canteen – Part Two
The war had ended. The need for a welcome had not.
Part Two of More than Just a Canteen: How NAAFI and the Women's Voluntary Service Helped Sustain Morale During and After the Second World War has now been published on The Sutlers Supreme.
Part Two follows the NAAFI–W.V.S. partnership into post-war Germany, beginning in the ruins of Hamburg in 1945 and tracing the development of clubs and welfare services across the British Zone.
Along the way we meet some of the first W.V.S. women to serve in occupied Germany, discover the everyday work carried out in NAAFI clubs, visit Summit House in Berlin and see how the partnership adapted once again during the Berlin Airlift.
It is a story of canteens, clubs, information bureaux and welfare services, but above all, of the people who helped make life a little more welcoming for British servicemen and women far from home.
