I read a horrific book about the months after the end of WW2 in Europe, last year.
Because the whole of Europe was affected, there were food shortages, a constantly moving population, soldiers still everywhere, limited transport etc.
Horrific accounts of endemic rape and women always walking in groups, especially in reassignment camps, but there was one particular bit that stayed with me. In an Italian town housewives sat in a hall, soldiers entered with tins of food and used them to buy a woman's sexual services. The woman added the tins to their piles and went back to waiting for the next soldier. That was the only source of food to keep their children alive.