"GIs in Austria are living on the hope that somehow they can get home..."

"GIs stationed in Austria admit that the scenery is good, and that the girls are pretty, but they don't like much else. There isn't much else. The shops in Vienna and Salzburg long ago were cleaned out, and recreation is even more limited that it is in Germany. Vienna is one of the saddest, and hungriest, cities in Euope. There is a little more food, and little more gaiety, in the samller Austrian towns, but not much. The Austrians are living largely on the hope that somehow things will get better, and the GIs in Austria are living largely on the hope that somehow they can get home."

From: Yank - the GI Story of the War, edited by Debs Myers, Jonathan Kilbourn and Richard Harrity. New York 1947.