After World War II?

Question

Why wasn't most all of Italy rebuilt after the war...There was parts in South Italy that did not get repaired..Was it because it was a old part of Italy anyway. That was for the most part not used anymore or ?. I think after World War II, they should have been allowed a special International grant to restore buildings. Also in poland and other countries badly damaged....

Answer 1

There was an "international grant" of sorts for rebuilding Europe after the war: The Marshall Plan, which Italy, like France and Germany, availed itself to during the 40's and 50's. Consequently, Italy enjoyed an "economic miracle" in the 50's and 60's when its streets became crowded with shiny red Fiats and Lancias, and the popular world became aware of "la dolce vita" (the "sweet life").

Also, Italy wasn't flattened by bombs the way Germany was. It was bombed, to be sure, but Rome, Florence, Venice, Milano, were left in tact at war's end. In Germany, just about every town or city that had a railroad attached to it, regardless of size, got the business end of a B-52!

The southern part of Italy has always been poor with little natural resources. It was also reputedly run by mafioso.

Poland found itself behind the Iron Curtain not long after the end of WWII, as did most of central Europe, and consequently, couldn't avail themselves to the Marshall Plan. They had to rely on Moscow in the rebuilding of their ravaged cities.