I watched a Frankie Fraser doc once, he said the Blitz was a criminal's dream - the whole war was
They'd get air raid wardens' uniforms and go out looting bombed shops - the public would help them load vans thinking they were helping protect the shop owners' stuff. And then there was the huge boom in black market goods - they'd sell fuel to rich people for their cars, and all manner of other things, creating contacts with the middle and upper classes that continued after the war, as these were the people with the money to pay for rationed/banned items.
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:19, archived)

Let's just gloss over all that eh and pretend that everyone was selfless and moral

(dribble, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:21, archived)

A bomb hit the Cafe De Paris in Leicester Square
it was full of the rich and fashionable having a good old time. Within minutes of the smoke clearing the site was swarming with cockneys picking over the bodies of the toffs for cash and jewellery. Again, you don't hear about that a great deal.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 24 May 2021, 15:27, archived)